Close on the heels of recovering 13 kg heroin, Punjab Police have effectively recovered 10 AK-47 assault rifles and 10 foreign made .30 bore pistols in past three days on the disclosures of the arrested drug smugglers.
The state Director-General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav on Saturday said that Amritsar’s Counter Intelligence (CI) had arrested two Rajasthan-based drug smugglers — Sukhvir Singh and Bindu Singh — after recovering 13 kg heroin from their possession near Verka bypass in Amritsar on November 21, which further led to the arrest of their two more aides, identified as Manpreet Singh and Balkar Singh alias Lovepreet Singh, both resident of Guru Har Sahai in Ferozepur, from Hanumangarh in Rajasthan, where they were staying in a rented accommodation. “Based on revelations of arrested drug smugglers, the CI Amritsar police teams in a joint operation with Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday, had recovered five AK-47 rifles and five foreign made .30 bore pistols along with nine magazines concealed near pillar in the area of forward Post Teerath in Ferozepur,” he said.
He added, “Acting swiftly on the specific inputs from CI Amritsar, BSF recovered another chunk of five AK-47 rifles and five foreign made .30 bore pistols along with 19 magazines concealed in the area of Border Outpost Jagdish in Ferozepur on late Friday evening.