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Punjab: Police bust cross-border smuggling racket, one held with 3.5kg Heroin

Chandigarh, Apr 1 (UNI) Punjab Police have busted a cross-border drug smuggling racket with the arrest of an alleged drug smuggler with purported links to a Pakistani criminal and recovered 3.5 kg heroin from his possession in Ferozepur district, the state's top cop said on Tuesday.
State Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said here that the Counter Intelligence (CI) wing, Ferozepur, busted the racked by nabbing the accused identified as Sukhdev Singh alias Sukhi of Mohan Ke Uttarin in the district. Apart from recovering heroin, police have also impounded the motorcycle he was riding.
Yadav said a preliminary investigation revealed that the arrested accused was in direct contact with a Pakistan-based smuggler, who was using drones to drop the drug consignments from across the border.
Further investigation is underway to trace the forward and backward linkages in this case, he added.
In this regard, a case has been registered at Police Station State Special Operation Cell (SSOC), Fazilka. The accused will be produced before the court to obtain police remand for further investigation. UNI GS SSP
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