Jalandhar, February 22, 2018: Cracking download heavily on drug peddlers under ongoing Drive against Drugs initiated by the state government, a Joint team of Counter Intelligence wing of Punjab Police and district Jalandhar (Rural) Police today busted an interstate drug trade racket by arresting two smugglers and recovering 12 quintals of poppy husk from them.
Interacting with the media persons, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Jalandhar (Rural) Gurpreet Singh Bhullar and AIG Counter Intelligence Harkamal Preet Singh Khakh said that acting on a tip off they have recovered 12 quintal (60 bags of 20/Kg each) poppy husk which was hidden under the 2250 packets of “Jumpin” mango fruity juices in a truck. They said that Police had received a secret information that smugglers Manjit singh s/o Bhagwan Singh r/o vill Huzra, PS Sidhwan Bet, Jagraon and Balwinder Singh s/o Surjit Singh Jatt r/o village Tehang, PS Phillaur, Balwinder singh r/o Lambardara de dhaani village Bhundari, PS Sidwan bet, Jagraon and Satnam Singh s/o Chand singh r/o village Kullahan, PS Sidhwan bet, Jagraon were running doing an interstate poppy husk smuggling racket. Divulging the modus operandi of racket they said that the gang bought poppy from MP state at low prices and further sold it at very high prices in Punjab.
The officers said that they got the information that today also these racketeers were sitting inside the Dana mandi of village Kohar kalan along with the consignment hidden inside the truck number PB-08-CH-5679. They said that acting swiftly a joint team of Counter Intelligence Jalandhar and SHO Shahkot immediately raided that place and arrested two smugglers Manjit singh & Balwinder Singh along with a truck loaded with “Jumpin fruit juices” and they were hiding 60 bags of poppy husk under these mango juices.
During preliminary investigation, these two smugglers told police that they brought this consignment from “Mandsaur” in Madhya Pradesh at very low price of Rs 20,000/bag. The officers said that they spent almost 12 lacs in total on these 60 bags and were eyeing huge profits in Punjab by selling it at Rs 60,000-1,00,000 per bag. They said that in this manner they were planning to earn profit of Rs 40,000-80,000 profit straight way on each bag and in this way they earn a minimum profit of Rs 24 lacs overnight.
They said that Balwinder Singh was earlier booked under NDPS act but due to liquidity of money in this business, he resorted to old trade. Police parties have been dispatched to arrest remaining two accused and Police remand would be taken of these two-arrested accused from Judicial Magistrate to probe their further linkage towards other drug smugglers and peddlers so that this nexus of drug smuggling could be broken down completely.