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Punjab police bust Pakistan-sponsored drugs and arms smuggling racket, BSF constable arrested

| @indiablooms | Jul 16, 2020, at 12:52 am

Chandigarh: The Punjab police have busted a Pakistan-sponsored drugs and illegal arms smuggling racket and even arrested a BSF constable who was attached with the group.

The police arrested four people including the BSF man.

Foreign-made weapons, including a 9mm pistol (Zigana-made in Turkey), along with 80 live cartridges (etched with Pakistan Ordnance Factory (POF) markings), two magazines and two live cartridges of 12 bore gun, along with Rs 32.30 lakh drug proceeds, were recovered from Constable Sumit Kumar alias Noni, reports The Tribune.

According to DGP Punjab, Dinkar Gupta, Constable Sumit Kumar, of Magar Mudian village, police station Dorangla, Gurdaspur, has been apprehended, along with three other members, including Simarjit Singh alias Simma, Manpreet Singh and Amanpreet Singh, reported the newspaper.

Meanwhile, an FIR has been registered under Section 302, 506, 341, 120 B, 212 and 216 of the IPC, 25 Arms Act  at police station Kartarpur.

The FIR was registered against Amanpreet Singh, Simranjit Singh and Sukhwant Singh, all residents of Dhirpur village, for the murder of one Jagjit Singh. 

Giving details, the DGP told The Tribune Jalandhar (Rural) Police had arrested Amanpreet Singh on July 11 in Jagjit murder case, and during investigation, Amanpreet disclosed that he and his brothers, were in touch with one Shah Musa of Pakistan, for smuggling of narcotics and weapons across the Indo-Pak border.

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