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Jalandhar Police bust interstate drug trafficking racket, 4 peddlers arrested

Jalandhar, February 1, 2021 (Yes Punjab News)
Continuing its drive against the drug peddling, the Commissionerate Police on Monday busted an inter-state gang of drug peddlers and recovered 450-kg poppy husk besides arresting four peddlers.

The accused have been identified as Irshad (19), Danish (26) of Dialgam village, Anantnag district, Jammu and Kashmir, Manjeet Singh (34) of Guru Arjun Dev Nagar, Ludhiana and Gurdeep Singh (32) of Fatehgarh Sahib.

Divulging more information, Commissioner of Police Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said a police party led by Assistant Sub-Inspector Jasvir Singh at Cheema Chowk received a tip-off that four persons were loading plastic gunny bags containing the contraband from a truck (JK-03-E-3324) into Polo (PB11-BE-2364) at Wadala Chowk.

He said that acting on the information; the police party raided the spot and took four of them into custody. He said that the cops conducted the search and found a 450-kg poppy husk packed in 23 plastic gunny bags.

He said that Irshad has been studying in 10th class in a private school at Anantnag and drives an auto as part time job and Danish had passed BA-second year and works as driver.
Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said that both were involved in drug trafficking for the last one year.

Commissioner of Police said the accused Gurdeep Singh has already been facing three drug cases in Ludhiana and Patiala and Manjeet was in the drug business for the last one year.

On being quizzed, the accused had disclosed about the source of the poppy husk, who is based at Jammu and Kashmir and local police have also been intimated about the supplier.
He said that a case under sections 15, 61 and 85 of NDPS Act has been registered against them at Police Station-7 and would be produced in the local courts for further interrogation.

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