Drug ring busted, 10 people arrested with weapons | News from Chandigarh

Chandigarh: Punjab Police'S Anti-Drug Task Force (ANTF) in a joint operation with a central agency busted a major drug syndicate and arrested 10 persons, Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said.
The arrested persons are Chandan Sharma, Akash Sharma, Vishal Singh, Arvinder Singh, Lovepreet Singh, Rinku Thapar, Bharat, Divyam, Pratham and Ankush Bhatti. The police teams also recovered 1 kg of heroin, 381 grams of charas, three pistols including a modern Glock pistol, 62 live cartridges and two empty cartridge casings, Rs 487,000 of drug money, 262 grams of gold and electronic devices from their possession.
The DGP said that the accused ran the drug network and were active in Jalandhar, Amritsar and Ludhiana. The investigation revealed that after smuggling drugs across the border, the accused sent money to Pakistan-based drug smugglers through the hawala route, he added.
He said the investigation was conducted in an advanced manner, using technological surveillance and human intelligence, reflecting the ANTF's strategic approach in tackling complex criminal networks. Further investigations are underway to establish forward and backward links in the case, he said, adding that more arrests are expected.
ANTF Special Director General Kuldeep Singh said preliminary investigations revealed that Lovepreet Singh, a resident of Amritsar, was the key person who ran the entire drug network of this syndicate and used his vast network of contacts to smuggle drugs and weapons across the state. Police teams have also found a hidden cupboard in the house of accused Lovepreet where he hid all the smuggled drugs and hawala money and also used it as a safe house for himself, he added.

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