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Punjab Police, in its war against drugs during the past 11 months, have arrested 14,952 drug smugglers and seized 1,135.25 kg heroin. Since the launch of its anti-drug smuggling operations on July 5, last year, the police have registered a total of 11,147 FIRs, including 1,313 related to commercial quantities.
“The police seized 987.75 kg heroin from across the State after carrying out cordon and search operations in drug-affected areas besides putting up nakas (checkpoints) along vulnerable routes,” said the state Inspector General of Police (Headquarters) Sukhchain Singh Gill on Monday.
He said: “Additionally, 147.5 kg heroin was seized by teams of the Punjab Police from seaports in Gujarat and Maharashtra, taking the total effective seizure of heroin to 1,135.25 kg in the past 11 months.”
The IGP said that the police have also seized 731 kg opium, 840.76 kg ganja, 350.40 quintal of poppy husk, and 62.49 lakh tablets, capsules, injections or vials of pharma opioids. The police seized cash worth Rs 11.83 crore from drug smugglers arrested in these 11 months.
Punjab Police Forms SIT in Canada Deportation Issue
With nearly 700 students in Canada, mostly from Punjab, facing deportation on account of ‘fake offer letters’, the Punjab police on Monday formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to look into the matter. It is being claimed that the agents, mainly from Jalandhar, had duped the students by providing them with the “fake offer letters”.