Amritsar: Drug module busted: Three-day police remand for 4 operatives

The Special Cell of Amritsar rural police today got three day police remand of the four operatives of Italy-based drug trafficker Gurpreet Singh alias Gopi.

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Arshpreet Singh of Udhar village, Gurpal Singh of Joyke village, Gurtej Singh of Ratta Khera Gulab Singhwala (Ferozepur) and Hardeep Singh of Sursingh Wala (Ferozepur) were produced before the local court on Friday.

Acting on intelligence inputs, the Amritsar rural police had seized nine sophisticated pistols and Rs 50,000 drug money from them.

The police recovered four Glock pistol (26 GEN), two Glock pistols (43 GEN), two pistols of .30 bore calibre, a country made pistol of .30 bore, Rs 50,000 drug money, two bikes and four mobile phones from their possession.

According to police special cell of Rural police got specific input regarding movement of drug and weapon trafficking module in Hoshiarnagar village located on Amritsar-Attari road here. Immediately an intelligence operation was launched and the accused were nabbed form Hoshiarnagar village T-point.

A case under Arms act and BNS act was registered with Gharinda police and further probe was on to establish their backward and forward links.