SRINAGAR: A drug smuggler linked to the recent recovery of 30 kilogrammes of heroin from Jammu has been arrested in Ludhiana in a joint operation by the Punjab Police and their Jammu and Kashmir counterparts.
The accused, Gurjit Singh from Ludhiana’s Mullanpur Dakha, was also apprehended with Rs 4.94 crore in cash, a revolver and 38 fake vehicle number plates, Punjab Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav said on Wednesday.
“Big blow to inter-state narcotic network: Jammu and Kashmir Police and Punjab Police, in a joint operation, have apprehended one drug smuggler from Mullanpur Dakha and seized Rs 4.94 crore along with 38 fake vehicle number plates and one revolver,” Yadav said in a post on Twitter.
Yadav said that Gurjit Singh was one of the key accused in the 30 kilogram heroin case. “Gurjeet Singh is one of the key accused in 30 kilograms of heroin recently recovered in Jammu.
J&K Police had found 30kg of heroin concealed inside a Toyota Innova at Ramban on September 30. Two Punjab-based smugglers, Sarabjeet Singh of Billan Pind in Jalandhar and Honey Basra of Phagwara-Banga road in Kapurthala, were arrested. Investigations ongoing to establish backward and forward linkages,” said Yadav.
Gurjit Singh, who belongs to Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar (formerly Nawanshahr) in Punjab, was staying in a rented accommodation in Mullanpur Dakha.
Two nameplates of president of the Police Pariwar Welfare Association, Ludhiana, and president of the Police Pariwar Welfare Association, SBS Nagar, were seized from him. Police officials said that Gurjeet used these plates on his vehicles to evade checking at nakas (checkpoints).