Following the directions of Punjab Home Minister SukhjinderSingh Randhawa and Director General of Police (DGP) IPS Sahota to eliminate thedrug abuse from the state, Kapurthala police in continuation to its war againstmenace on Thursday busted an inter-state racket of smuggling of poppy husk andarrested two peddlers after seizing 170 kg of poppy husk from a truck concealedinto apple boxes.
The arrested accused have been identified as InderjeetSingh alias Bawa of New Ajad Nagar, Bahadurke, and Rocky of Tiba Road, near gasagency in Ludhiana.
Divulging more details, Senior Superintendent of Police(SSP) Harkamalpreet Singh Khakh said the police have been keeping a close vigilon the activities of narcotics smugglers active in Kapurthala.
He said special checking teams were formed under thesupervision of SP (Investigation) Kapurthala, a team led by DSP D KapurthalaAmrit Saroop constituting In-charge CIA staff Kapurthala Surjeet Singh and histeam was patrolling on Phagwara highway on tip-off.
He said that the team stopped a truck bearingregistration number (PB-10-ES-1227) for checking and seized 170 kg poppy huskconcealed in apple boxes from the truck coming from Jammu and Kashmir.
SSP said that this is a second big haul by Kapurthalapolice in last 15 days following the directions of Punjab Home Minister tocheck inter-state vehicles specially coming from Jammu and Kashmir. On November14, police had also seized 250-Kg poppy husk and arrested two peddlers.
SSP said that the accused have been booked under sections15 (C), 25, 29, 61 and 85 NDPS ACT PS Sadar Phagwara and on their revelations,three accused Baljinder Singh of Rurka Khurd in Jalandhar, Nikka Gujjar NearSudhar Ludhiana and Bashir Ahmed of Bakora Gandarwal Jammu Kashmir, have beennominated in the said case.
The police parties have been conducting raids to nab theremaining accused, he added.
He told that the accused would be produced in the localcourts and would be taken on remand for further interrogation and to arrest theremaining members of the racket.