Kapurthala, August 31
Busting a drug syndicate reportedly being operated by notorious gangsters lodged in jails, the Kapurthala police seized 20-kg heroin worth Rs 100 crore in the international market with the arrest of two drug dealers on Monday.
The two drug dealers have been identified as Balwinder Singh of Sarangwal village of Hoshiarpur and Peter Masih of Basti Danishmanda in Jalandhar. Peter is already facing two criminal cases.
DGP Dinkar Gupta said when police teams intercepted a truck and a Hyundai i20 car at the Dhilwan police naka in Kapurthala on Monday, the search led to the recovery of 20-kg heroin. He said the occupants tried to flee, but the alert cops managed to nab them.
The police recovered 20 packets of heroin (one kg each) from their possession and the two vehicles, said the DGP. Harkamalpreet S Khakh, SSP, Kapurthala, said two special cavities had been created in the roof of driver’s cabin of the truck to conceal the consignment. The DGP said during preliminary investigations, the drug dealers disclosed that a heroin consignment was being smuggled from Purmara Mandi in Srinagar by Balwinder Singh in a truck while Peter Masih collected the consignment from him.
The DGP said a narco-gangster angle was being suspected in the case as the investigations carried out so far had indicated that Peter Masih had been sent to collect the consignment from Gaggandeep, brother of notorious gangster Rajnish Kumar, alias Preet Phagwara. — TNS
20-kg heroin seized in Kapurthala, two held
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