Properties worth Rs 2.38 cr of 9 smugglers attached

Taking action against drug smugglers, the Ludhiana rural police claimed to have attached properties of nine big smugglers and the value of the attached properties is around Rs 2.38 crore.

Ankur Gupta, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Ludhiana (Rural), said under the special campaign launched by the state government and Director General of Police, Punjab, Gaurav Yadav, to control the drug smugglers and anti-social elements to make Punjab-drug free, the police district Ludhiana (rural) cracked the whip against the smugglers in the cases registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

The SSP said properties of many other smugglers were also under scanner and the same would be attached after following the due procedure of law. Even strict instructions were also given to police officials that whenever they nab any smuggler, they should also verify their properties and if the same are found to be garnered through drug money, process to attach the properties should be started immediately.

In a statement issued the police stated that the attached properties include a property worth Rs 1.02 crore of smugglers Varinder Kumar, alias Varinder Kumar Arora, and his father Satish Kumar, residents of Jagraon, property worth Rs 30.75 lakh of Sandeep Kumar, alias Monu, and his father Baldev Raj of Neem Wali Gali, Jagraon, properties worth Rs 62.65 lakh of Karamjit Singh, his father Jagdev and mother Jasvir Kaur of Jagraon and a property valued at Rs 42.94 lakh of Harpreet Singh and Gurbachan Singh, both residents of Agwar Gujjran.