118 more drug smugglers held
On Day 12 of the “war against drugs”, the Punjab Police on Wednesday conducted raids at 543 locations, leading to the arrest of 118 drug smugglers after the registration of 71 FIRs across the state. With this, the number of total drug smugglers arrested in 12 days has gone up to 1,658.
The police also seized 994 gm heroin, 4,633 intoxicant tablets/pills/injections and Rs 1.47 lakh drug money from the possession of arrested drug smugglers.
The operation was conducted on the directions of Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav simultaneously in all 28 Police districts of the state.
Special DGP (Law and Order) Arpit Shukla said over 250 police teams, comprising over 1,600 personnel, under the supervision of 102 gazetted officers, conducted raids across the state and checked 659 suspicious persons during the day-long operation.
