— YUDH NASHIAN VIRUDH CONTINUES AS POLICE ARREST 111 DRUG SMUGGLERS AFTER 687 RAIDS ACROSS STATE ON DAY 7
— DAY LONG OPERATION LEADS TO REGISTRATION OF 86 FIRs, RECOVERY OF 1.2KG HEROIN, 9.8KG OPKUM, ₹1.32L DRUG MONEY
— PUNJAB POLICE COMMITTED TO MAKING PUNJAB A DRUG-FREE STATE AS PER DIRECTIONS OF CM BHAGWANT SINGH MANN
— POLICE TEAMS CHECK 3938 VEHICLES ENTERING/EXITING STATE’ AS PART OF OPS SEAL; ISSUES CHALLANS TO 471, IMPOUNDS 11
— OVER 250 POLICE TEAMS LED BY 108 SP/DSP RANK OFFICERS CHECKED 787 SUSPICIOUS PERSONS: SPL DGP ARPIT SHUKLA
CHANDIGARH, March 7:
Continuing the war against drugs “Yudh Nashian Virudh” waged on the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann to eradicate drug menace from state consecutively for the seventh day, Punjab Police on Friday carried out a special operation ‘OPS Seal-IX’ aimed at checking all the vehicles entering or exiting the border state of Punjab to keep tab at drug trafficking and liquor smuggling.
During the operation, conducted from 8am to 2pm in all the districts on the directions of Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav, all the SSPs of Border districts were directed to organise joint Naka operations at strategic places of the border districts and mobilise a maximum number of manpower to lay strong ‘nakas’ at sealing points under the supervision of Gazetted officers/SHOs.
Sharing details, Special DGP Law and Order Arpit Shukla said that well-coordinated strong nakas involving over 1000 Police Personnel were set up under the supervision of Inspectors/DSPs at least 84 entry/exit points of 10 districts, which share boundaries with four border states and UT Chandigarh. The 10 inter-state border districts include Pathankot, Sri Muktsar Sahib, Fazilka, Ropar, SAS Nagar, Patiala, Sangrur, Mansa, Hoshiarpur and Bathinda.
He said that as many as 3938 vehicles entering/exiting the state were checked, of which 471 were challaned and 11 were impounded during the operation.
Apart from this, Police teams have continued its cordon and search operation (CASO) against drugs and conducted raids at 687 locations on Friday leading to the arrest of 111 drug smugglers after registration of 86 first information reports (FIRs) across the state. With this, the number of total drug smugglers arrested has reached to 884 within a week.
The Special DGP said that the raids have resulted in recovery of 1.2 kg heroin, 9.8 kg opium, 3.3 kg ganja, 46 kg poppy husk, 7091 intoxicant tablets/pills/injections and Rs 1.32 lakh drug money from the possession of arrested drug smugglers.
He said that informed that over 250 Police teams, comprising over 2000 police personnel, under the supervision of 111 gazetted officers have conducted raids across the state and checked as many as 787 suspicious persons during the day long operation.
He said that Punjab Police has devised a comprehensive strategy and such operations will be continued till the scourge of drugs eradicated from the state.
The Special DGP said that with the state government has enforced a three-pronged strategy— Enforcement, Deaddiction and Prevention (EDP)— to eradicate drugs from the state, the Punjab Police as part of ‘De-addiction’ has convinced two persons to undergo de-addiction and rehabilitation treatment, while, organised 189 awareness events across the state on Tuesday as part of Prevention.
