Two nabbed with 4.5kg heroin

Busting yet another cross-border smuggling racket, the Anti-narcotics Task Force (Amritsar Range) nabbed two alleged drug traffickers and confiscated 4.5 kg of heroin and Rs 11 lakh drug money from them.

Director General, Punjab Police, Gaurav Yadav, on Friday said the police arrested Gurbhej Singh, alias Bheja, a resident of Dhanoe Khurd village (presently living at Rattan village), and Abhijeet Singh, alias Happy, of Mahal village who was now residing at Bhalla Colony in Chheharta.

Preliminary investigations revealed that Gurbhej was in direct contact with Pakistan-based cross border smuggler identified as Rana. He was sneaking in the contraband in the Indian Territory using drones. Recently, he, in coordination with Gurbhej, had smuggled a heroin consignment. The latter lured Abhijeet to the illegal drug trade for earning easy money, accompanying him for the first time for delivering the contraband. Both used to work as PVC panel fitting workers.

“Teams of ANTF Border Range Amritsar conducted an operation and arrested the duo with the heroin consignment. Later during investigations, the police seized the drug money to the tune of Rs 11 lakh from the native village of Gurbhej Singh. The police also impounded their scooter which was without number plate.

Punjab