Police registered 27 FIR's, Recovery of 776 gram Heroin, 14 Kg Opium and 4.6L drug money
Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, March 2-
Continuing the war against drugs “Yudh Nashian Virudh” waged by CM Bhagwant Singh Mann to eradicate drug menace from state consecutively for the second day, Punjab Police on Sunday has conducted raids at 510 locations leading to the arrest of 43 drug smugglers after registration of 27 first information reports (FIRs) across the state. With this, the number of total drug smugglers arrested has reached to 333 in just two days.
Police teams have also recovered 776 grams heroin, 14 kg opium, 38 kg poppy husk, 2615 intoxicant tablets/ pills/ injections and Rs 4.60 lakh drug money from the possession of arrested drug smugglers.The operation was conducted on the directions of DGP Punjab Gaurav Yadav from 9am to 4pm simultaneously in all 28 Police districts of the state.
Divulging details, Special DGP Law and Order Arpit Shukla informed that over 300 Police teams, comprising over 2000 police personnel, under the supervision of 101 gazetted officers have conducted raids across the state and checked as many as 619 suspicious persons during the day long operation