Punjab Police busted transborder narcotics smuggling racket, seize 10kg of Heroin

New Delhi, December 29
The Punjab Police busted a trans-border smuggling network and arrested two men after recovering 10 kg heroin along with arms and ammunition from their possession.
The accused have been identified as Harshdeep Singh of Thaman village and Sarwan Singh alias Sabba of Shahur Kalan village, both in Gurdaspur.
The police also recovered two .30 bore foreign-made pistols along with four magazines and 180 live cartridges from their possession.
In a statement, DGP Punjab, Gaurav Yadav said police teams of Counter Intelligence (CI), Pathankot carried out a special operation near village Thaman, and arrested the duo when they were walking home after retrieving the consignment of drugs and weapons pushed by Pakistan-based smugglers through fences with the help of a pipe at Border Outpost (BOP) Chauntra (Dorangala, Gurdaspur).
Preliminary investigations revealed that both the drug smugglers were in contact with Pakistan-based smuggler Rehmat Miyan, Yadav added.
The police have booked the accused under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and the Arms Act.