Inter-district gang of drug smugglers busted, 3 arrested

Tribune News Service

Phagwara, December 14

The Phagwara Police on Tuesday busted an inter-district gang of drug traders and nabbed six drugs smugglers and sellers. The cops also recovered a huge quantity of drugs worth around Rs 2.25 crore from their possession.

Kapurthala SSP Harkamalpreet Singh Khakh said after getting a tip off, the police party headed by SHO Sadar Gagandeep Singh and CIA in-charge Inspector Surjit Singh raided the house of Santokh Singh at Bhularai village today early morning and arrested six drugs traders — Lakhwinder Singh alias Lakha of Bhularai, Harwinder Singh alias Bhinda of Wahid village, Sarabjit Singh of Mirapur village, Barinder Singh of Pandori village, Amanpreet Singh Attowal village and Sahil of Ganna Pind.

Phagwara SP Sarabjit Singh Bahia said the accused were nabbed from the house of Santokh Singh, who is the grandfather of the arrested accused Lakha.

Khakh said the police party raided the house and seized 330 gm of heroin, 400 gm of opium, Rs 2.1 lakh as drugs money, a pistol along with live 10 cartridges, an electronic weighing scale, a Breza car, a Verna car and packing material from the arrested accused, who would be produced before the Judicial Magistrate on Wednesday. Several more disclosures are expected from the arrested drugs traders during police interrogation.