Woman among 2 held with 6.6 kg heroin in Ferozepur

Anirudh Gupta

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Ferozepur, August 8

In a major breakthrough, the Ferozepur police have arrested two drug smugglers, including a woman, and seized 6.65 kg heroin and Rs 6 lakh drug money from their possession on Wednesday late night.

Ferozepur SSP Saumya Mishra said the accused have been identified as Simran Kaur, alias Indu Bala, a resident of Moga, and Gurjot Singh, a resident of Jaimal Wala village in Moga.

“Both the arrested persons have a criminal background. Simran is facing at least 15 cases pertaining to the NDPS and the Prisons Act,” she said.

The SSP said they had reliable inputs that Simran and Gurjot had retrieved a huge consignment of narcotics dropped by a drone and were on their way to deliver it to their client in an MUV.

Acting swiftly, the CIA sleuths laid a naka at Old Mudki Road and nabbed the duo with 6.65 kg heroin along with Rs 6 lakh drug money, said Mishra, adding that they had also impounded the MUV.

The SSP said they would initiate the procedure to forfeit the illegally acquired property of the smugglers under Section 68F of the NDPS Act.

Meanwhile, Simran had hit the headlines in 2007 when she named several political bigwigs and senior police officials in the Moga sex scandal case whose trial is still pending in a CBI court.

In this case, former Moga SSP Davinder Singh Garcha, former SP Paramdip Singh Sandhu, former SHO Raman Kumar, including Simran, and a few Moga councillors were arrested.

Later, the CBI had also framed charges against nine other persons, including SAD leader Baljinder Singh Brar, alias Makhan Brar.

One of Simran’s accomplice, Manjit Kaur, who was also accused in the Moga sex scandal case, had turned approver in the CBI court but she was murdered along with her husband in 2018 in Zira. Manjit had changed her name to Prabhdeep Kaur and was eight- month pregnant when she was killed.

Simran was released on bail in February by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in another case related to drugs which was registered against her in 2021 at the Moga police station.