4 months of decisive struggle towards medication: Punjab Police arrests 1097 huge fish amongst 6997 smugglers; 406.5KG heoin recovered
CHANDIGARH: With the decisive struggle towards medication waged on the instructions of Chief Minister Punjab Bhagwant Mann to root out medication entered fifth month, Punjab Police have arrested as many as 6997 drug smugglers together with 1097 huge fish since July 5, 2022. The Police have registered a complete of 5346 first info experiences (FIRs) of which 580 are associated to business amount.
Inspector Common of Police (IGP) Headquarters Sukhchain Singh Gill, who was addressing his weekly Press Convention right here on Monday mentioned that the Police groups have recovered 259.7Kg Heroin from throughout the state after finishing up cordon and search operations in drug-affected areas apart from laying nakas at weak routes throughout the state. Moreover, 147.5Kg heroin was recovered by the groups of Punjab Police from Seaports of Gujarat and Maharashtra, taking the entire efficient restoration of heroin to 406.5Kgs in simply 4 months, he mentioned.
Other than seizing big-haul of heroin, the IGP mentioned that Police have additionally recovered 300Kg opium, 197.2Kg Ganja, 293 quintals of poppy husk, and 27.56 lakhs tablets/capsules/injections/vials of Pharma opioids from throughout the state. The Police have additionally recovered Rs 4.49 crores of drug cash from the possession of drug smugglers arrested in these 4 months.
Giving fortnightly replace, the IGP mentioned that in final two weeks, the police have arrested 508 drug smugglers/suppliers after registering 399 first info experiences (FIRs), together with 54 business, and recovered 26.5Kg Heroin, 17Kg opium, 13.8Kg Ganja, 19 quintals of poppy husk, and 1.20 lakh tablets/capsules/injections/vials of Pharma opioids apart from recovering Rs 4.5 lakh drug cash from their possession.
He mentioned that with seven extra Proclaimed Offenders (POs)/Absconders in NDPS instances arrested within the final two weeks, the entire variety of arrests reached 383 because the particular drive to arrest POs/absconders was began on July 5, 2022.
Pertinently, Director Common of Police (DGP), Punjab Gaurav Yadav had given strict directions to all of the CPs/SSPs to research from side to side linkages minutely in every case, particularly associated to drug recoveries, even when they get well a meager quantity of medication.
In the meantime, on the route of Chief Minister Punjab Bhagwant Mann to make Punjab a drug-free state, in depth anti-drug drives have been launched by the Punjab Police to fight the menace of medication from the border State. The DGP has additionally strictly ordered all of the CPs/SSPs to determine all hotspots the place medication are prevalent and all prime drug smugglers of their jurisdictions. He additionally directed the Police chiefs to successfully forfeit the property of all of the arrested drug smugglers in order that their ill-gotten cash may very well be recovered.