Punjab Police Director General Gaurav Yadav has said that Pakistan-based intelligence operatives are using social media to recruit youth from Punjab for criminal activities. Addressing a press conference in Chandigarh yesterday, he said criminals are increasingly using social media to lure and recruit young people into organised crime.
The DGP was speaking after the successful deportation of fugitive gangster Gurwinder Singh Afridi from Ethiopia. He said the deportation was carried out following a ten-month-long intelligence-led international manhunt under Operation SHAHID.
Mr Yadav appealed to parents and society to work together to protect the youth from falling into criminal activities. He said Punjab Police is also running a special community policing initiative, Yuva Sanjh, to bring misguided youth back into the mainstream through counselling and family involvement.