Sending alarm bells ringing, the Punjab Police’s Counter-Intelligence Wing, Jalandhar, has busted an inter-state drug racket of heroin smuggling, being operated from Kapurthala jail.
In the operation, the police has confiscated one-kilogram heroin from Sultanpur Lodhi area of Kapurthala district by arresting two drug smugglers, identified as Gurvinder Singh of Noorpur Hakima village in Dharamkot, Moga, and his associate Ranjit Singh, resident of Mehatpur in Jalandhar.
AIG Counter Intelligence, Jalandhar, Harkamalpreet Singh Khakh said that the Counter- Intelligence Wing received a tip-off that Gurvinder Singh, who has links with Delhi-based Nigerian smugglers, was procuring a big heroin consignment with his one associate Ranjit Singh, and if proper search is conducted near Sherpur Dona to Talwandi Madho area, they can be apprehended with drug.
Acting swiftly, Khakh shared information with Kapurthala SSP Satinder Singh, and a joint team of Counter Intelligence Wing and a team of Sultanpur Lodhi police station was set up and moved to search the area to seize the consignment along with smugglers.
“Following the instructions, the police party successfully intercepted the Tata sumo car in the area and arrested two of them. During frisking, police teams recovered One Kilogram heroin from their possession which was hidden in the Sumo,” AIG added.