KHALISTAN EXTREMISM MONITOR
A project of the Institute for Conflict Management
A project of the Institute for Conflict Management
The Batala police on October 20 recovered two kg of heroin from an agricultural field in Haruwal village in Gurdaspur district. A drone was spotted in the area around two weeks ago, prompting a search operation.
Police on October 15 arrested a drug smuggler, identified as Surinder Singh alias Shinda, and recovered 1 kg of heroin, a 9-mm pistol, INR 8.5 lakh drug money and two cars, after an encounter at Nurmahal in Jalandhar district.
The Special Task Force (STF) arrested three drug smugglers and recovered 2.5 kg of heroin in the Gharinda area of Amritsar district on October 15.
Ferozepur police arrested two persons, identified as Rajdeep Singh and Amrik Singh along with 2 kilograms of heroin in Ferozepur district on October 15.
Police on October 15 arrested two persons, identified as Surjit alias Bulla and Sukhjinder Singh and recovered 25 grams of heroin from their possession in Kapurthala district.
Police arrested a drug peddler, identified as Baljeet Singh along with 50 grams of heroin from near the area of Dussehra ground on Altos Chowk in Ludhiana district on October 15.
Police arrested four Punjab-based drug peddlers, identified as Kulwinder Singh, Gurpal Singh, Kuljit Singh Rana and Kalu Singh and recovered 55 grams of heroin in two separate incidents in Fazilka district.
Police arrested two drug smugglers, identified as Gurbinder Singh alias Binder and Kulwant Singh alias Kanta, and recovered 12 kg of heroin from them near Qile Wala Chowk in Ferozepur district on October 12. According to police, both were coming back after receiving a consignment from across the border in a car.
The Border Security Force (BSF) and the Punjab Police, in a joint operation, recovered a drone (Quadcopter) and a packet containing 3.213 kg of heroin from a paddy field near the International Border in Tarn Taran district on October 12.
The Punjab Police, along with the Jammu and Kashmir Police, arrested a drug smuggler, identified as Manjit Singh, who was wanted in a 30-kg cocaine seizure case, and seized a .32-bore revolver, INR 4.94 crore drug money, 38 fake vehicle number plates of Punjab and Haryana, 44 gm gold, 385 gm silver, a currency counting machine and a weighing machine, from Mullanpur Dakha in Ludhiana district on October 11. This development followed the earlier arrest of two Punjab-based drug smugglers, Hunny Basra from Palahi Gate in Phagwara and Sarabjit Singh from Ballan village in Kartarpur, who were arrested with 30 kg of cocaine in Jammu on October 1. Punjab police sources said that they were suspecting it to be an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)-linked case
The Border Security Force (BSF) on October 7 seized a drone along with 6.3 kg of heroin and a small packet containing 60 gm of opium from a field near the International Border in the Amritsar sector of Amritsar district.
Tarn Taran Police on October 5 arrested a person, identified as Shera Singh, and seized 3 kg of heroin from his possession in Mehndipur Village in Tarn Taran district.
The Special Task Force (STF) on October 4 arrested three individuals, identified as Avtar Singh, Joginder Singh and Gurvinder Singh and seized 100 grams of heroin from their possession in Mohali in Sahibzada Ajit Singh (SAS) Nagar district. The accused allegedly sourced heroin from Amritsar for INR 2,000 per gram and sold it for INR 3,200 per gram in Mohali. Avtar had two prior drug smuggling cases in Amritsar, Punjab and Tarn Taran, Punjab, while Joginder had one drug case in Amritsar.
The Border Security Force (BSF) on October 3 intercepted a China-made drone and recovered 470 gm of heroin, near Dhanoe Khurd village in Amritsar district.
Punjab Police and Border Security Force (BSF) on October 3 intercepted a Pakistani drone and recovered 2.518 grams of heroin from near Border Out-Post (BOP) Kalsia near Kalsian Khurd village in Tarn Taran district.
The Border Security Force (BSF) on October 2 intercepted a drone and recovered 2.7 kilograms of heroin and the drone, in a paddy field near Kalsian Khurd village in Tarn Taran district. The drone was a Chinese-made Quadcopter (Model – DJI Matrice 300 RTK).
The Anti-Narcotic cell of Police Commissionerate, in a joint operation with Counter Intelligence (CI) on October 1 arrested one person, identified as Kartar Singh and recovered 1.5 kg of opium from his possession in Kot Gangu Rai village in Ludhiana district.
The Border Security Force (BSF) on September 29 intercepted a drone and recovered 545 grams of heroin and the drone, near Rajatal village in Amritsar district. The recovered drone is China-made Quadcopter DJI Mavic-3 Classic.
Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) of Punjab Police on September 27 arrested three individuals identified as Gurcharan Singh alias Channa, Sukhdev Singh alias Sukha and Sunil Singh alias Lovely and recovered 1.872 kg of heroin from their possession near Saide ke village in Ferozepur district.
Punjab Police on September 27 arrested an individual identified as Jang Singh and seized 1,010 intoxicating tablets and drug money of INR 2.31 lakh from his possession in Guruharsahai in Ferozepur district.
Police arrested a man, identified as Lakhan Khosla and seized 70 grams of an intoxicating powder, most likely heroin, from his possession in Model Town in Hoshiarpur district on September 27.
Police on September 27 arrested two unidentified individuals and recovered 100 grams of heroin and a stolen car from their possession in Mahilpur in Hoshiarpur district.
Chabbewal Police on September 27 arrested two drug smugglers, identified as Vikramjeet and Sahil Bains and seized 260 grams of intoxicating powder from their possession in Chabbewal in Hoshiarpur district.
Nabha Police, on September 26, arrested two individuals, identified as panchayat secretary Deepak Garg and Navpreet Pal and seized around 3.5 kg of opium from their possession in Nabha in Patiala district. Garg is alleged to have smuggled around 60 kg of opium over the last two years, primarily sourced from Rajasthan.
Zirakpur police, along with the Special Task Force (STF) Mohali unit, on September 26 arrested two drug peddlers identified as Arun Kumar and Manjit Singh alias Meet and recovered 50 grams of heroin from their possession in Mohali in Sahibzada Ajit Singh (SAS) Nagar district. The arrested individuals disclosed that they sourced the heroin from the Ferozepur border area for INR 2,000 per gram and sold it in Mohali for INR 3,200 per gram.