Chandigarh (Punjab): Two Pakistan-backed drug smugglers have been arrested in Khem Karan sector of Tarn Taran along the International Border and 13 kgs heroin consignment have been seized from their possession. A manhunt has been launched for the third accomplice.
According to Dinkar Gupta, Director General of Police, the arrest of Jora Singh, and his associate Ranjit Singh, who were planning to deliver the consignment to drug syndicates and suppliers across the state, has exposed the nexus between drug smugglers operating in Punjab and their handlers in Pakistan.
The activities of Jora Singh were under watch based on specific information was received by Tarn Taran police. Currently on bail since March 2020, he was also apprehended by security agencies near the IB for suspicious activities in August 2019. Four FIRs are already registered against him for drug smuggling, in which a huge quantity of narcotic substance was recovered. He had also amassed a number of properties without any legal source of income.
Gupta said that initial investigations had revealed that Jora Singh, along with his two associates Pawandeep Singh and Ranjit Singh @ Rana Singh, was in touch with Pakistan-based smugglers. He was trying to procure a heroin consignment from the Pakistan side into the area of (BOP) Rattoke, Border Security Force (BSF). They had also conducted recce near the IB, Village Rattoke, PS Khem Karan.