Properties of four drug peddlers frozen

The Amritsar police have frozen the moveable and immovable assets of four drug peddlers worth Rs 1.27 crore on Thursday. The police had confiscated 500 gm of heroin, a drone, two pistols and Rs 15 lakh drug money from their possession on May 14.

Dr Sheetal Singh, Assistant Commissioner of Police while sharing details said that the action was taken under Section 68F of the NDPS Act.

The drug smugglers whose properties were seized included Varinderpal Singh (32) of Akalgarh Dhapaiya village located on Mehta Road, Gurmukh Singh (21) of Sudhar Rajputa village in Khalichian, Taljinder Kumar of Dande village and Jasvinderpal Singh (32) of Akalgarh Dhapaiya village.

Among the properties frozen included 25 marla house of Gurmukh Singh in Sudhar Rarjputa village, two marla house of Varinderpal in Akalgarh Dhapiyan, a 10-marla house of Jaswinderpal Singh in Akalgarh Dhapiyan and a 2.5 marla house of Taljinder Kumar at Dande village. Apart from this Rs 15 lakh of drug money and the amount which they deposited in the accounts of their relatives was also frozen.