In a significant breakthrough, Amritsar Rural Police, in collaboration with central agencies, recovered a large consignment of weapons from five people allegedly involved in a trans-border smuggling network. The consignment was ordered by Nav Pandori, a close associate of gangster Jaggu Bhag
The police have seized an assault rifle with two magazines, two 9 mm with four magazines, 90 live cartridges of AK Rifle, ten live cartridges (9 mm), Rs 7.50 lakh drug money, a car and three mobile phones.
The Amritsar Rural Police, acting on specific intelligence inputs, seized eight illegal weapons in two separate operations with the Border Security Force (BSF Punjab) in a significant blow to trans-border arms trafficking.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Maninder Singh told ANI, "We received information that Gurpreet Gopi, a sepoy in the Indian Army, had ISI contacts and had been in touch with them. He had been conducting suspicious monetary transactions with his friend, Sahil Masih from Dhariwal village
In a significant breakthrough, the Amritsar Rural Police on Saturday successfully busted a cross-border drug smuggling racket, apprehending two key operatives, Lovepreet Singh and Balwinder Singh.
The Amritsar police on Saturday arrested Akashdeep Singh, who is a known criminal and a member of the Billa Arjan Manga gang, as per the police officials.
In a post on X, DGP Punjab Police said, "In an intelligence-led operation, Amritsar Rural Police busts an illegal Arms smuggling module linked to #Italy based Gurpreet Singh @ Gopy working in close coordination with #Pakistan-based smugglers and arrests four operatives and recovers 9 weap
According to the officials on Sunday, the heroin consignment had been smuggled into India by Pakistan-based handlers and was further meant for distribution across Punjab.
Amritsar Rural Police dismantled a transnational criminal network and recovers eight foreign-made sophisticated pistols, a senior police officer said on Sunday.