Punjab Police, in two different cases, has busted an international narco-arms module and an inter-state narco-hawala syndicate and has arrested 9 persons. Five sophisticated pistols with Rs. 9.7 lakh drug money and over a kilogram of Heroin have been seized from them in Amritsar.
Police sources revealed today that in the first case, 3 accused, including two recently returned from Malaysia, have been arrested with 5 sophisticated pistols and Heroin. They were acting on the directions from handlers sitting in Pakistan and Malaysia to deliver weapons across Punjab.
Whereas, in the other case, 6 accused have been arrested in a narco-hawala network linked to Delhi, Karnataka and Dubai. This operation has led to the recovery of Rs. 9.7 lakh drug money and Heroin. The syndicate was routing proceeds to Dubai through hawala channels. Further investigations are underway.
DGP Yadav said two separate first information reports (FIRs) have been registered at Police Stations Sadar and Islamabad in Amritsar. Further investigation is underway to trace forward and backward linkages to unearth the whole smuggling module, he said.
Sharing details of the first operation, Commissioner of Police (CP) Amritsar Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said in an intelligence-led operation, police teams arrested three individuals -”- Jaspreet, Harpreet and Tejbir — involved in narco-arms module and recovered five sophisticated pistols, including three 9mm pistols, two .30 bore Chinese pistols, along with cartridges from their possession.
He said preliminary investigations revealed that Jaspreet and Harpreet had recently returned from Malaysia and were in touch with their handlers in Malaysia and Pakistan.
They came to the Amritsar area with their friend Tejbir and on instructions of their handlers and picked up a weapon and drugs consignment, he said, while adding that the weapons were meant to further deliver to criminal elements to carry out crimes.
A case was registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and the Arms Act at Police Station Sadar in Amritsar.