Four land in Ludhiana police net with 3 kg of heroin, ammunition

The Ludhiana (rural) police claimed to have busted a supply chain of drugs by arresting four members of a notorious gang of smugglers and peddlers, seizing huge quantities of drugs from their possession.

As much as 3.034 kg of heroin worth crores in the international market, one .32 bore pistol, one magazine, two cartridges, Rs 30,000 drug money and a car were seized from the possession of the suspects, identified as Jaswinder Singh, alias Bobby, of Aitiana in the Sudhar area, Prince of Jagraon, Rahul of Jagraon and Harpreet of Attari in Amritsar district.

Though the police are yet to compile the criminal records of the suspects, preliminary investigation has suggested that they were associated with high-profile smugglers involved in cross-border smuggling of contraband including drugs and weapons.

SSP Ankur Gupta said police personnel, supervised by SP (D) Rajan Sharma, DSP (D) Kulwant Singh and DSP (D) Raikot Harjinder Singh, had apprehended the suspects when they were going to deliver a consignment of heroin to their clients near Grain Market, Talwandi Rai, under the Raikot Sadar area late on Tuesday evening.

The operation was conducted on the basis of inputs received from some secret sources, the SSP said.

“Having received concrete information regarding movement of four members of a gang of smugglers, we laid an organised cordon and our team succeeded in arresting all suspects from near the grain market at Talwandi Rai,” Gupta said, maintaining that a large quantity of contraband was recovered during the search conducted in the presence of the DSPs.

The suspects have confessed that they had distributed large quantities of drugs earlier after having secured supplies from Pakistan. While more information is to be extracted, the suspects have been found involved in at least seven cases registered at various police stations of the region.

The police have also identified some big players who had been providing supplies to the suspects after securing supplies from Pakistan through drones.

Ferozepur man arrested with 1-kg opium

The Samrala police claimed to have nabbed a notorious drug peddler of Ferozepur district involved in illicit trade of drugs for a long time.

The past history of the suspect, Arashdeep Singh, of Lohgarh village in Ferozepur, is yet to be ascertained. Around 1 kg of opium was found concealed under the seat of the Toyota Innova Crysta vehicle in which he was travelling on the Samrala-Chandigarh highway.