AMRITSAR: In a major breakthrough amidst the ongoing drive to eradicate drugs from the state, Punjab Police’s Counter Intelligence (CI) Amritsar has dealt major blow to the cross-border heroin smuggling after seizing 6kg heroin, 67 live cartridges of .30 bore and two magazines, despite the accused managed to flee, said Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Sunday.
Apart from recovering substantial quantity of heroin and ammunition, police teams have also recovered six mobile phones including Apple iPhone 11 Pro and one jio dongle from the bag thrown by the accused person.
DGP Gaurav Yadav said that the CI Amritsar team has received a reliable input about the involvement of Gurdaspur’s Jaffarpur village-based person in smuggling of drugs/weapons and the latter has recently received a consignment of heroin and arms-ammunition with the help of drones from the area of Indo-Pak border in District Batala-Gurdaspur, and he is going to further deliver the same to some other party.
He said that acting swiftly upon this tip, police teams led by DSP CI Amritsar Balbir Singh conducted raid at village Jaffarpur in Gurdaspur, during which the accused managed to escape, after throwing away his bag. The Police teams have seized the contraband from the bag, he added.
The DGP said that police teams have identified as the absconding accused person and raids are being conducted to nab him. Further investigation is going on to establish backward and forward linkages in this case, he said, while adding that efforts are being made identify his other associates, who are involved in the smuggling of drugs/arms/ammunition.
A case FIR No. 59 dated 28.09.2024 has been registered under sections 21, 25 and 29 of the NDPS and section 25 of the Arms Act at Police Station State Special Operations Cell (SSOC), Amritsar.