news details |
|
|
| Heroin worth Rs.100 mn seized in Chandigarh | | Drug consignment had made way into India through the Akhnoor border | | New Delhi | Dec 1
Sleuths of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Saturday nabbed two people including a foreign national and recovered from them 10 kg of heroin, worth Rs.100 million in the international market, which had been brought from Afghanistan via Pakistan.
Disclosing this here, NCB's north-western regional director Saji Mohar said Paramjit Singh of Attari village near the India-Pakistan border, 25 km from Amritsar, had come in his car to deliver the consignment to a Burundi national, Festus Benson.
As the delivery was being made near the grain market in Sector 39 here Saturday morning, NCB officials nabbed the two men.
Singh had been in prison earlier on charges of drug peddling. He was first arrested in 1998 with one kg of heroin and was released on parole in 2005. He did not go back to the prison at the end of his parole period.
NCB officials said they were tracking Singh's movements for the last two months following a tip-off that he would be delivering a big consignment.
Mohar said that the packing of the consignment showed that it was fresh stock from Afghanistan that was packed and sent through Pakistan. The drug consignment made its way into India through the Akhnoor border in Jammu and Kashmir.
In recent years, Punjab has become a major transit and sale point for drugs from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Smugglers have been active in the state with the Punjab police pointing to the involvement of certain politicians and influential people in helping them run the illegal trade. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
