Punjab Police on Monday said it has arrested a man with six kg heroin following its probe into the 105-kg drug haul in the state.

The arrested accused has been identified as Lovepreet Singh, a resident of Chakoki village in Kapurthala, Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said.  Apart from recovering heroin consignment from his possession, police also impounded the accused's car in which he was travelling.

The development came a day after Counter Intelligence (CI) Amritsar of the Punjab Police busted a cross-border smuggling racket after arresting two associates -- “Navjot Singh and Lovepreet Kumar -- of drug smuggler Navpreet Singh alias Nav Bhullar and recovered 105 kg heroin, 31.93 kg caffeine anhydrous, 17 kg dextromethorphan (DMR) and six weapons from their possession.

DGP Yadav said while establishing forward-backward linkages in this case, police figured out that another associate Lovepreet Singh has received a huge consignment of heroin from Rajasthan, which he planned to supply to his associates based in Punjab.

Police teams led by deputy superintendent of police Counter Intelligence Amritsar, Balbir Singh, put up a special checkpoint in Umranangal Morh village along the Jalandhar-Amritsar GT Road and apprehended Lovepreet Singh after recovering six kg heroin from his car. 

The DGP said preliminary investigation revealed that Lovepreet Singh picked up the heroin consignment from district Hanumangarh in Rajasthan and was going to deliver it to drug peddler Navjot Singh, who was arrested in the 105 kg heroin seizure case.

The arrested accused will be further questioned to gather more information about the supply chain and his connections with the drug trafficking network.  Further investigations are on to establish backward and forward linkages in this case, said the DGP.