During the early morning of December 30, inputs werereceived by Amritsar (Rural) Police that a consignment of weapons and narcoticshad been pushed across the International Border in the area of the BSF BOPMetla in Dera Baba Nanak Sector, Gurdaspur.
Based on above inputs, an FIR no. 216 dated 30.12.2020u/s 411, 414 IPC, 25 Arms Act, 21, 23 NDPS Act was registered at PS Gharinda,Amritsar (Rural) and the BSF authorities were immediately alerted and a jointsearch operation was carried out.
The joint search of the area led to the recovery of 7.31kg heroin and three China made .30 bore Norinco Pistols from near Border Pillarno. 38/3 of the BOP Metla.
As per initial inputs, which are to be corroboratedduring investigations, the consignment had been pushed into the Indianterritory by a notorious Pakistan based smuggler Jagdish Singh @ Bhura r/oJagraon, who is presently settled in Belgium. He has been nominated in the FIR.He is an active terrorist and Proclaimed Offender in 3 terrorism related cases.
Further intelligence inputs have established the key roleof a major drug smuggler namely Ranjit Singh r/o village Modhe, Amritsar, whois currently lodged in Ludhiana Jail. Based on information by Amritsar (Rural)Police, the authorities of Ludhiana Jail conducted the search of the belongingsof Ranjit Singh and one Oppo smartphone has been recovered from his possession.He has also been nominated in the case and will be brought on productionwarrant for further questioning and further investigations into his extensivenetwork of contacts.
Ranjit Singh was recruited as constable in the 80thBatallion of PAP, Jalandhar in 1989 and rose up to the rank of ASI in 2011. Butin 2011, he was booked by DRI for his involvement in an NDPS Act case where 23kg heroin was recovered. Thereafter, he was dismissed from service in 2012.Ranjit Singh has five criminal cases registered against him for smuggling ofdrugs and arms, where commercial quantities of heroin and sophisticatedfirearms were recovered.
While in Jail, Ranjit Singh developed close contacts withPak based smugglers for smuggling of drugs into India.
In December 2016, Ranjit Singh also developed close linkswith smugglers Simranjit Singh and Surjit Masih. Both Simranjit Singh andSurjit Masih are among the prime accused in the recently arrested drone moduleby Amritsar (Rural) Police in which a Quadcopter Drone with SkyDroid T10Telemetry System and four other drones along with related hardware wererecovered.
Further investigations are being conducted to examineRanjit Singh’s involvement in this recently busted drone module. Thoroughinvestigations, are being done to establish the network of foreign and Indiancontacts which were in close touch with Ranjit Singh to unravel the forward andbackward linkages of the recovered drug consignment.