In final eight months Punjab Police arrests 1628 massive fish amongst 11360 smugglers
CHANDIGARH: With the decisive struggle in opposition to medication waged on the instructions of Chief Minister Punjab Bhagwant Mann to root out the menace of medicine has entered the ninth month, Punjab Police have arrested as many as 11360 drug smugglers together with 1628 massive fish since July 5, 2022. The Police have registered a complete of 8458 first data reviews (FIRs) of which 962 are associated to industrial amount.
Inspector Normal of Police (IGP) Headquarters Sukhchain Singh Gill, who was addressing his weekly Press Convention right here on Tuesday, mentioned that the Police groups have recovered 612.78-Kg Heroin from throughout the state after finishing up cordon and search operations in drug-affected areas apart from laying nakas at susceptible routes throughout the state. Moreover, 147.5-Kg heroin was recovered by the groups of Punjab Police from Seaports of Gujarat and Maharashtra, taking the full efficient restoration of heroin to 760.28-Kgs in simply eight months, he mentioned.
Aside from seizing big-haul of heroin, the IGP mentioned that Police have additionally recovered 464.18-Kg opium, 586-Kg Ganja, 270 quintals of poppy husk, and 53.73 lakhs tablets/capsules/injections/vials of Pharma opioids from throughout the state. The Police have additionally recovered Rs 10.36 crores of drug cash from the possession of drug smugglers arrested in these eight months.
Giving a weekly replace, the IGP mentioned that within the final one week, the police have arrested 234 drug smugglers/suppliers after registering 189 first data reviews (FIRs), together with 22 industrial, and recovered 7.60-Kg Heroin, 10.30-Kg opium, 13.87-Kg Ganja, 2.80 quintals of poppy husk, and 59271 tablets/capsules/injections/vials of Pharma opioids apart from recovering Rs 1.47 lakh drug cash from their possession.
He mentioned that with 25 extra Proclaimed Offenders (POs)/Absconders in NDPS circumstances arrested within the final one week, the full variety of arrests reached 749 for the reason that particular drive to arrest POs/absconders was began on July 5, 2022.
Pertinently, Director Normal of Police (DGP), Punjab Gaurav Yadav had given strict directions to all of the CPs/SSPs to research back and forth linkages minutely in every case, particularly associated to drug recoveries, even when they recuperate a meager quantity of medicine.
In the meantime, on the course of Chief Minister Punjab Bhagwant Mann to make Punjab a drug-free state, intensive anti-drug drives have been launched by the Punjab Police to fight the menace of medicine from the border State. The DGP has additionally strictly ordered all of the CPs/SSPs to establish all hotspots the place medication are prevalent and all high 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.