Drug smuggler’s properties worth Rs 1.27 cr attached
Suspect already facing three cases of drug smuggling
Adopting a zero tolerance policy against drug smugglers under the ongoing campaign ‘Yudh Nashian Virudh’, the Khanna police have attached properties worth Rs 1.27 crore of a drug smuggler. These include a property and an SUV bought in the name of his brother-in-law and the latter’s wife, which had also been attached as the same was bought by the suspect in their names.
The suspect has already been facing three FIRs of drug smuggling registered against him in the past.
DSP, Samrala, Tarlochan Singh, along with the police team put up notices outside the attached properties.
SSP, Khanna, Darpan Ahluwalia, said the smuggler whose property was attached was identified as Jasdev Singh of Machhiwara while his brother-in-law Jagroop Singh (wife’s brother), and Jagroop’s wife Sukhraj Kaur, are residents of Chak Gujjran Batala.
She said after recovery of 21.90 gm of heroin from Jasdev, a case was filed under the NDPS Act on August 14, 2025.
Following the arrest, the SHO, Machhiwara police station, who has conducted the probe into the illegally acquired properties of the suspect, has passed an order to attach the properties on January 28.
The properties were seized/attached and it had been ordered that the same would not be transferred/sold/purchased or dealt with, unless permission was received either from the police or the competent authority, the SSP said.
Dr Ahluwalia said Jasdev owned a house worth Rs 64.82 lakh in Machhiwara and he also bought a land in the name of Sukhraj worth Rs 47.46 lakh and a Scorpio vehicle in the name of Jagroop worth Rs 15.38 lakh. The properties had been acquired by the suspect in his name and in the name of his associates out of illegal income earned through drug trafficking.
The SSP passed on a message to smugglers that once they were caught, the police would attach every property or valuables bought by them or in the name of their relatives with the proceeds of drug money. Several cases of attaching such properties are already under process.
