Two arrested with 508 gm of contraband, drug money

The Amritsar rural police have arrested two persons with over 500 gm of heroin and Rs 80,000 of drug money from their possession. They were identified as Sukhchain Singh, alias Kala, and Gurpreet Singh, alias Sonu, of Jhanjhoti village in Rajasansi.

They were travelling in a car (PB-46-X-9473) when they were intercepted by a police party. The police also seized three mobile phones from their possession.

A case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act has been registered in this connection and a probe was on to ascertain the source of the contraband. Their backward and forward links were being identified and more seizures are likely to be made in the near future.