Chandigarh,

Oct 27 (HS): Punjab Police have busted cross-border drug smuggling syndicate and

arrested two drug smugglers while recovering a huge quantity of narcotics

including 105 kilos of heroin from their possession.

Punjab Police Director

General Gaurav Yadav gave this information on his social media account X on

Sunday morning. Giving information, the counter intelligence team of Punjab

Police has arrested two drug smugglers from Baba Bakala town of Amritsar.

Police have recovered about 105 kg heroin, 31.93 kg caffeine, 17 kg DMR, 5

foreign pistols and 1 country made pistol from them. The arrested accused have

been identified as Navjot Singh and Lovepreet Kumar.

The leader of the accused,

Navpreet Singh alias Bhullar, was running this network from abroad. DGP said

that all the said consignments had come from across the border from Pakistan.

The value of the recovered drugs in the international market is more than Rs

500 crore.

DGP

Punjab Gaurav Yadav said that the said FIR has been registered in Amritsar

State Special Operation Unit. Recently, a consignment was caught by the police,

input about this recovery was received during the interrogation of the said

accused.

The police had been trapping and recceing in the said area for quite

some time. This consignment of drugs has been transported to Punjab through

waterways. Large rubber tubes of tires have also been recovered with this

consignment, indicating that narcotics are smuggled through waterways.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi