CHANDIGARH, Oct 15: The Punjab Police on Wednesday unearthed a cross-border organised arms and narcotics smuggling module having links to Pakistan, with the arrest of three people, an official said.
The Amritsar Police also recovered 10 sophisticated pistols along with 500 grams of opium from them.
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Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said the accused have been identified as Rajan alias Sagar (28), a resident of Faizpura in Amritsar, Surinder Singh alias Pali (24), from Fazilka’s Tali Wala village and Jagjit Singh (25), a resident of Cheema Kalan in Tarn Taran.
The recovered weapons include four 9MM Glock pistols and six .30 bore pistols.
Preliminary investigation has revealed that the arrested accused were running inter-district gang of smuggling and were connected to a Pakistan-based handler, the DGP said.
The recovered arms were meant to be supplied to gangsters and criminals to fuel unlawful activities in Punjab, he said.
DGP Yadav said further investigations are underway to establish forward and backward linkages in this case to expose and dismantle the entire network.
Sharing operational details, Commissioner of Police (CP) Amritsar Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said Rajan was initially arrested with one .30 bore pistol and a quantity of opium. But his interrogation led to the unearthing of the entire network.
Subsequently, Surinder was also arrested, leading to the recovery of three .30 bore pistols and one 9mm pistol from his possession, the CP said, adding that further investigation resulted in the arrest of Jagjit from whom five pistols, including three Glock 9mm and two .30 bore, were recovered.
Bhullar said accused Jagjit Singh had returned from Dubai four months ago.
Surinder’s village is located close to the international border in Jalalabad, district Fazilka, while Jagjit’s native village lies near the border in Tarn Taran.
The accused were retrieving drone-delivered consignments from Amritsar to Fazilka and Tarn Taran sectors, and were further supplying these consignments directly and through location-based delivery systems, he added. (PTI)
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