— ARRESTED ACCUSED WERE WORKING UNDER DIRECTIONS OF THEIR PAK-BASED HANDLER: DGP GAURAV YADAV
— FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS ARE ON; MORE ARRESTS AND RECOVERIES ARE LIKELY IN COMING DAYS
CHANDIGARH/AMRITSAR, September 28:
Amidst the ongoing drive to make Punjab a safe and drug free state as per the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, Counter Intelligence (CI) Amritsar has busted a cross-border narcotics smuggling module with links to Pakistan with the arrest of its two operatives and recovered 4kg heroin from their possession, said Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Sunday.
Those arrested have been identified as Akashdeep Singh alias Tony, a resident of Attari in Amritsar and Pawanbir Singh, a resident of Basarke Bhaini in Amritsar. Apart from recovering heroin, police teams have also impounded their Hero Splendor Motorcycle, being used by them for transporting the consignments.
DGP Gaurav Yadav said that preliminary investigations have revealed that both the arrested accused persons were acting upon the directions of Pakistan-based smuggler identified as Rana King, who has been using drones to drop narcotic consignments from across the border.
Sharing operation details, he said that teams of CI Amritsar had received specific information about the retrieval of large quantity of narcotics consignment from the border area. Acting swiftly, police team of CI Amritsar laid a trap and intercepted both the suspects from Chheharta-Sann Sahib Road Amritsar near Mannu Hospital, when they were going to deliver the consignment in the area of Chheharta to other party, he said.
The DGP said that further investigations are on to establish forward and backward linkages in this case to unearth the entire module. More arrests and recoveries are likely in coming days, he added.
In this regard, a case FIR no. 53 dated 28-09-2025 has been registered under sections 21, 25 and 29 of the NDPS Act at Police Station State Special Operation Cell (SSOC), Amritsar.
