Punjab Police Make Fresh Busts, Seizing 30 kg Heroin and Illegal Pistols
The raids signal a stepped-up push to map and dismantle locally run gangs that operate under jailed leaders and to trace overseas drug coordinators.
Overview
- Punjab’s Anti-Gangster Task Force arrested two men in Bathinda on Saturday and recovered two country-made .32 bore pistols and five live cartridges from their possession.
- Preliminary police checks link the Bathinda suspects to a criminal network run by a jailed gangster active in the Ferozepur area and show both have prior cases including attempt to murder and Arms Act charges.
- Separately, Amritsar Commissionerate police arrested six people and recovered 30.045 kg of heroin in an operation that officials say targeted a cross-border smuggling cartel.
- Punjab police say the Amritsar seizure points to an overseas coordinator based in Dubai who arranged consignments for local distributors, and the heroin case was registered under the NDPS Act at Chheharta police station.
- Authorities have filed cases at Civil Lines station in Bathinda and at Chheharta in Amritsar and are pursuing backward and forward linkages to find other associates and transnational handlers.