— RECOVERED ARMS WERE MEANT TO BE SUPPLIED TO GANGSTERS AND CRIMINALS TO FUEL UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES IN PUNJAB: DGP GAURAV YADAV
— FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS ONGOING TO EXPOSE FULL NEXUS
CHANDIGARH/AMRITSAR, October 5:
In an intelligence-led operation amidst the ongoing drive to make Punjab a safe and secure state as per directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, Counter Intelligence (CI) Amritsar has busted a cross-border arms and narcotics smuggling module with links to Pakistan with arrest of its two operatives and recovered 2.5 kg heroin and five sophisticated pistols from their possession, said Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Sunday.
Those arrested have been identified as Gurjant Singh, a resident of village Dholan in Tarn Taran and Gurvel Singh, resident of village Chhina Bidhi Chand in Tarn Taran. The recovered weapons include four 9MM Glock pistols along with magazines and one .30 bore pistol along with magazine. Apart from recovering narcotics and arms consignments, police teams have also impounded their Mahindra 3xO car, being used for transporting the consignments.
DGP Gaurav Yadav said that preliminary investigation has revealed that the arrested accused were acting upon the directions of Pakistan-based smuggler to smuggle the contraband from across the border. The recovered arms were meant to be supplied to gangsters and criminals to fuel unlawful activities in Punjab, he said.
Sharing operational details, he said that CI Amritsar had received a specific intelligence that the some unidentified persons have retrieved a huge consignments of illegal weapons and narcotics from Indo-Pak border, which was delivered from across the border with the help of drones in the area of village Dholan and Chhina Bidhi Chand in Tarn Taran.
Acting swiftly, police team of CI Amritsar intercepted the Mahindra 3xO car and arrested both the suspects from Amritsar-Bhikhiwind Road in Tarn Taran, when they were going to deliver the consignment to the next party in the area near village Panjwar in Tarn Taran, he said, while adding that arms and narcotics consignments were recovered from their vehicle.
The DGP said that further investigation is underway to establish backward and forward linkages in this case to expose the full nexus.
In this regard, a case FIR No. 57 dated 04-10-2025 has been registered under sections 21, 25 and 29 of the NDPS Act and section 25 of the Arms Act at Police Station State Special Operation Cell, Amritsar.
