Six held with 2.7 kg heroin in Amritsar

Cracking down on drug trafficking, the Amritsar (Rural) police have arrested six persons in three separate incidents and seized a total of 2.767kg of drugs from their possession.

Maninder Singh, SSP, Amritsar (Rural) said the Gharinda police in a joint operation with the CIA staff arrested Karan of the Nava Kot area and Chamandeep Teji of Prem Nagar in the Dhapai area of the city with 1.15 kg of heroin. They were driving an auto-rickshaw when the police arrested them near Khurmania village in Khasa.

In another incident the Ajnala police held Gurmej Singh, alias Geja, and Sukhdeep Singh, alias Sukh, of Akalgarh Dhapia village in Jandiala for allegedly possessing 1.12kg of heroin. They were arrested from Harar Kalan village.

Similarly, the Gharinda police arrested Major Singh and Manpreet Singh, both residents of Khalra in Tarn Taran, and seized 428 gm of contraband from them. The duo were travelling on a bike when they were intercepted by a police patrol party from Bhandiyar village.

The SSP said the police registered three separate FIRs under the NDPS Act against the arrested drug peddlers. More arrests and seizures were likely during further probe, he said. The police were also trying to identify their properties purchased through money earned from the illegal trade, the SSP said.

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