10 kg heroin seizure case: Startling facts unfold after Gurbhej’s quizzing

Startling facts have come to the fore during the interrogation of Gurbhej Singh (50) of Narla village, who was held by the Amritsar police with 10 kg of heroin four days ago.

A police official privy to the investigations revealed that Gurbhej Singh, a marginal farmer, was an acute drug addict himself. He got into the cross-border drug trafficking in order to fund his habit of drug abuse. “He owned around 2 acres of land at Narla village. After he got addicted to drug abuse several years ago, he sold one and a half acres of land owned by him for procuring drugs,” said the police official privy to the investigations.

Later, he initiated his son into the illegal cross-border drug trade. Gurbhej Singh along with his son Gurdit Singh (22) and Malkit Singh (50) of Dall village in Tarn Taran and Gurjit Singh (29) of Kotli Saka village in Ajnala, were arrested by the city police four days ago and a total of 12 kg heroin was seized from them.

“Malkit Singh was also a drug addict. He owned land near the International Border fence and therefore it was easy for him to drone drop drug and weapon consignments,” said an official wishing not to be named.

Gurbhej came in contact with Pakistan-based notorious drug peddler with a pseudonym, Pathan. They were using WhatsApp to communicate with each other and with the Pakistan-based smugglers. He used to ask Pathan to drop the drug consignments on agricultural land of Malkit Singh from where the father-son duo used to retrieve the same.

Their interrogation led the police to Gurjit Singh from whom they recovered 2.006 kg of heroin along with a .30 bore pistol and a magazine.

Notably, the names of Gurbhej and Gurdit cropped up during the interrogation of Gursewak Singh, who along with four others — Soni Singh, Vishaldeep Singh, Gurpreet Singh and Arshdeep Singh — were held with 8.1 kg of heroin five days ago.