Summary:
Tribune News ServiceChandigarh/Amritsar August 21In an intelligence-led operation based on specific inputs the Amritsar Rural Police foiled a major drug smuggling bid by Pakistan-based smugglers on Saturday morning by recovering 39 packets of heroin weighing 40.81 kg in the Panjgraian Border Outpost (BOP) area of Amritsar worth about Rs 200 crore in the international market. The above operation was supported by the Border Security Force (BSF) as it was carried out in the border area under the control of the BSF. Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta said that following an input that Nirmal Singh alias Sonu Mayer a notorious smuggler of Gharinda area was attempting to smuggle heroin through the Indo-Pak Border SSP Amritsar (Rural) Gulneet Singh Khurana immediately shared the inputs with the BSF. The DGP said that the joint teams of Punjab Police and BSF successfully seized the huge heroin cache besides recovering 180 gram opium and two plastic pipes (manufactured by Super Punjab Pump Made in Pakistan). Sharing the modus operandi SSP Khurana said that the smugglers used Pakistan-made plastic pipes to get the heroin across the border fence in the shape of neatly tied packets of heroin contraband..