The Punjab Police on Saturday claimed to have arrestedthree people after 8 Kg Heroin, Rs 20 lakh drug money, 5 Kg Poppy Husk, afortuner car and a Scorpio were recovered from their possession in Punjab’sHoshiarpur district.
Divulging details to the media, Navjot Singh Mahal, SSPHoshiarpur said that on April 2, a special nakabandi was done by team led by TusharKumar Gupta IPS, ASP Sub division Garhshankar and Prem Singh, DSP NDPSHoshiarpur at Mahilpur to Phagwara road near Village Thuana.
During nakabandi the team got a secret information that aperson named Sukhwinder singh alias Sukhi, a resident of Channanwal, Barnalaalong with Manpreet Singh alias Kala and Jagdeep Singh alias Sony, were bringinga huge amount of Heroin from J&K in their white Fortuner car No. HR 26CD-0072.
After conducting thorough search of the car thepolice team recovered eight packetscontaining 8kg Herion from a secret box which was designed along the radiatorand placed beneath the front bonnet of the car.
It is worth mentioning that the Sukhwinder Singh alreadyhad many FIRs registered against him of which two are under U/S UAPA Act registeredat Delhi and Ropar.
A huge amount of RDX was recovered from his possession.In year 2007, 6 Kg Heroin and 4 Pistols were recovered from him at Sidhwa BetDistrict Jagraon.
He is companion of Terrorist Daya Singh Lahoriya.Sukhwinder Singh came out of the jail on bail in year 2019 and he often visitPakistan where he developed the connections with drug smugglers who suppliesheroin to him and he often brings Herionto India from Pakistan.
During the investigation it was known that Sukhwinder Singhcarries out this smuggling act with his companion Amrik Singh.
“Hoshiarpur Police has done a commendable job by burstingthe gang”, said SSP Navjot Mahal, adding that a FIR has been registered againstthe accused under U/S 21(C) / 61-85 NDPS Act at Police Station Mahilpur.Accused persons are on Police remand now so that more information could bederived to break this chain.