9 smugglers held in Moga, heroin recovered

Moga/Amritsar, September 18

The Moga police on Saturday arrested nine drug smugglers, including six from Daulewala village, known as the “drug hub” of Punjab.

The police seized 100-gm heroin from Amritpal Singh, 50-gm from Baaj Singh, alias Baaji, and 300-gm heroin was seized from Gurdev Singh of Daulewala village. A woman resident of the same village, identified as Gurdeep Kaur, was also arrested by the police with 25-gm heroin. Similarly, other accused included Angrej Singh with 280-gm heroin and Hoshiar Singh with 30-gm heroin.

Meanwhile, acting on a tip off, the Amritsar rural police today seized 3.2-kg heroin from Angrej Singh of Daoke border village. The contraband was concealed in a tyre tube and a plastic bottle. Amritsar SSP (rural) Gulneet Singh Khuranna said the seizure was made following an input that the accused was involved in cross-border drug trafficking and had concealed a consignment, smuggled from Pakistan, recently. — TNS