The three accused have been identified as Yong Lui Xing, Choo Kai Lun, and Thiagarajan Kasi, all hailing from Malaysia.
Police said that the matter came to their attention when a victim committed suicide after falling into the loan scam operated by the accused.
"An operation was launched in which we have arrested a wanted accused named Lakbhir Singh alias Lakha. A Chinese-made drone, 1.6 kg of heroin, a pistol, and a rifle were recovered from his possession," said Snehdeep Sharma, AIG, STF, Amritsar.
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau during its ongoing campaign against corruption in the state, arrested six more accused on Tuesday in the illegal compensation scam involving the planting of guava trees in village Bakarpur, SAS Nagar district.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday arrested the absconding self-styled supremo of the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI), a proscribed Naxal outfit of Jharkhand.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday arrested a Kashmir-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) operative for his involvement in a terror conspiracy case in Jammu and Kashmir.
Supremo of banned extremist outfit People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI), Dinesh Gope was arrested from Nepal in a joint operation of Jharkhand police and National Investigation Agency, officials said on Sunday.
In a major breakthrough, the Special Task Force (STF) team arrested one of the accused of the Patna's Gandhi Maidan bomb blast case of 2013 from Bihar's Darbhanga, officials informed on Sunday.
The ED initiated an investigation based on an FIR registered by Vigilance Establishment Dehradun against Yadav under the Prevention of Corruption Act, for possessing assets disproportionate to known sources of income.
Yudhvir Singh aka Sadhu, a resident of Fatehabad, Haryana, and an associate of notorious jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi who was evading arrest for the past several days was arrested by the NIA on Friday.