2 Jalandhar youths among four held with record Rs 2,500 cr heroin

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 10

The Delhi Police today said the Special Cell had arrested four persons, including two from Punjab, one from Anantnag in J&K and an Afghan national, following the seizure of a record 354 kg of heroin worth over Rs 2,500 crore in the international market.

Officials identified them as Rizwan Kashmiri of Anantnag in J&K, Gurpreet Singh and Gurjot Singh of Jalandhar and Hazrat Ali of Kandahar in Afghanistan. Police sources said it had come to light that Rizwan was involved in drug peddling in Delhi and other states, including Punjab, MP and Haryana.

DCP (Special Cell) Pramod Singh Kushwah said: “On Monday, the police received information that Rizwan was on his way to deliver contraband in South Delhi. A trap was laid and the accused arrested with 1kg of heroin.”

He revealed that he worked under an Afghan national named Isha Khan, who had recently left India for Afghanistan. Khan directed him to contact Gurpreet and Gurjot, currently operating a drug racket from Faridabad in Haryana, the DCP said.

Based on his disclosure, Gurpreet and Gurjot were arrested too. The police seized 166 kg and 115 kg of heroin from two cars on the duo’s information. Later, 70 kg heroin was found at their rented accommodation. Gurpreet and Gurjot revealed they were operating on the instructions of Navpreet Singh based in Portugal, the police said.

“Gurpreet met Navpreet in Punjab’s Kapurthala Jail while they were in judicial custody in different cases,” the police officer said.