The Punjab Police on Saturday stated that they'd foiled a prime bid to smuggle tablets from Pakistan and recovered 39 packets of heroin, weighing 40.81 kg and predicted at about ₹200 crores withinside the global market, in the Panjgraian border outpost region of Amritsar.
Director-General of Police Dinkar Gupta stated the operation primarily based totally on particular inputs turned into achieved through the Amritsar (Rural) police, supported by the Border Security Force (BSF).
“Following an enter that Nirmal Singh, alias Sonu Mayer, an infamous smuggler of the Gharinda region, turned into trying to smuggle heroin via the India-Pakistan border, Senior Superintendent of Police, Amritsar (Rural) Gulneet Singh Khurana right away shared the pin-pointed inputs with the BSF. Joint groups of the Punjab police and the BSF effectively seized the large heroin cache, except recuperating 180 g of opium and plastic pipes (synthetic with the aid of using Super Punjab Pump, made in Pakistan).
The police have additionally impounded a motorbike and a Scooty belonging to the smugglers from the smuggling side, determined stationed on the vicinity,” he stated.
“The police have released a huge manhunt to arrest Sonu, who's additionally desired by the Tarn Taran police in a case of 1 kg of heroin recovered in 2020.”
“An FIR beneath neath Sections 21, 61 and 85 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act; Section 14 of the Foreigners Act; and Sections 3, 34 and 20 of the Indian Passport Act, has been registered on the Ramdas Police Station, Amritsar,” Mr Gupta stated.