Heroin seizure: Police identify mastermind

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, February 25

The 6-kg heroin smuggled from Pakistan near Kakkar border outpost 10 days ago, was sneaked in by four smugglers arrested by the Amritsar rural police here on Wednesday.

The police had on Wednesday nabbed Gurjant Singh, a resident of Nathupur village; Sukhjinder Singh of Khiala Kalan; Mehal Singh and Tehal Singh of Lodhi Gujjar village and seized Rs 29 lakh drug money, a China-made pistol with two magazines and 12 mobile phones with two Pakistani SIM cards.

Gurpartap Singh Sahota, DSP, Attari, said their interrogation revealed that one of their accomplices, Jarnail Singh, got the consignment smuggled from his Pakistani accomplices on February 14 near Kakkar border outpost. However, before they could retrieve the same, the BSF confiscated the same and later handed over to the Narcotics Control Bureau for further investigations.

A BSF official said that alert jawans had noticed the movement of a Pakistani smuggler ahead of the barbed fence who threw something in the Indian side of the border. When the BSF jawans challenged, they fled back. During search the BSF jawans found two packets containing 2-kg heroin at that time.

A search operation was carried in the area next morning also where the jawans recovered four more packets consisting of 4-kg heroin. Sahota said that raids were on to nab Jarnail Singh who had managed to slip away from the spot.