Busting a big drug syndicate suspectedly being operatedby notorious gangsters lodged in Jails, the Punjab Police have seized 20 kg ofheroin worth 100 crore rupees in the international market with the arrest oftwo drug dealers by Kapurthala Police on Monday.
The two drug suppliers-dealers have been identified asBalwinder Singh of village Sarangwal Hoshiarpur and Peter Masih of BastiDanishmanda locality in Jalandhar. Peter has already been facing two criminalcases.
DGP Punjab Dinkar Gupta said that when Police teamsintercepted a truck and a Hyundai i20 car at high-tech Dhilwan Police naka inKapurthala on Monday, the search of the vehicle led to the recovery of 20 kgheroin consignment.
The DGP added that the drivers of vehicles were signalledto stop at the Check point by the police party but the occupants tried to flee;however, the alert cops managed to nab them after a brief chase.
The police recovered 20 packets of heroin (one kg each)from their personal possession during their body check and from the 2 vehicles,said the DGP. HPS Khakh, SSP Kapurthala, added that two special cavities hadbeen created in the roof of driver's cabin of the Truck by the drug suppliersto conceal the consignment during transportation.
DGP added during preliminary investigations, the drugdealers disclosed that a heroin consignment was being smuggled from PurmaraMandi in Srinagar by Balwinder Singh in a truck bearing registration numberHR-55K-2510 and Peter Masih collected the consignment from him.
The DGP said that a narco-gangster angle is beingsuspected in the case as the investigations carried out so far had indicatedthat Peter Masih had been sent to collect the consignment by Gaggandeep,brother of the notorious gangster Rajnish Kumar @ Preet Phagwara.
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The Police would produce the arrested accused before themagistrate and would seek their police remand for further investigations and tounearth all the links involved in this drug network, said the DGP.