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They accused Bhola (L) and Rana (R). (Image: DGP PUnjab / Twitter)
Police said the duo are suspected of smuggling heroin and other drugs from Pakistan by camouflaging up to six shipments of rock salt across the Indo-Pak-Attari border in Amritsar between 2018 and 2019.
- News18
- Last update: May 9, 2020, 10:20 a.m. IST
Chandigarh: In a morning operation on Saturday, Punjab police rushed to arrest the largest drug trafficker and his brother from Sirsa, Haryana. The operation took place around 5 am on Saturday.
Drug traffickers Ranjeet Rana Cheeta from Amritsar and his brother Gagandeep Bhola were sought in the case of the 532 kg heroin from Attari in June 2019. The duo was arrested in the Begu village of Sirsa in Haryana.
“After the arrests of the Hizbul operatives in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, the Punjab police giant moved to catch Ranjeet Rana Cheeta from Amritsar, one of India’s largest drug traffickers from Sirsa,” he tweeted. Punjab Dinkar Gupta DGP.
According to police, Rana is suspected of smuggling heroin and other drugs from Pakistan by camouflaging up to six shipments of rock salt across the Indo-Pak border at Attari in Amritsar between 2018 and 2019.
On Friday, Punjab police had arrested the most wanted gangster Baljinder Singh, aka Billa, who had alleged links to Pakistan-based KLF chief Harmeet Singh Happy, as well as KZF’s Bagga, with based in Germany.
Another notorious gangster, Sukhjinder, and five other members of the Billa gang, have also been arrested, along with a large shipment of highly sophisticated weapons smuggled from Pakistan, as well as reportedly smuggling drug money through the border through various modes, including drones. .
The Organized Crime Control Unit arrested today the drug and arms dealer Baljinder @ Billa and 6 gang members.
Gangs wanted in more than 18 criminal cases of murder and smuggling of weapons and drugs.
11 sophisticated German and Austrian weapons smuggled in to carry out recovered terrorist acts. pic.twitter.com/X4BbwbtIFO
– Punjab Police India (@PunjabPoliceInd) May 8, 2020
According to DGP Gupta, the arrests were made in a joint operation by the team from the Chandigarh Organized Crime Control Unit, the Jalandhar Counterintelligence Unit and the Kapurthala Police, who identified those arrested as Baljinder Singh, aka Billa Mandiala ( sin Mandiala, Gurdaspur), Sukhjinder Singh (r / o Kamoke Beas village, Amritsar).
Kapurthala-based Mohit Sharma, Lovepreet Singh, Mangal Singh and Maninderjeet Singh o Happy, and Lovepreet Singh or Lovely (r / o Amarkot, Valtoha Tarn Taran) were also among those arrested on Friday.
Baljinder Singh was wanted in more than 18 criminal cases, including murder, attempted murder, and arms / drug smuggling, etc.
The defendants were detained separately as they are being evaluated by a special team of doctors for COVID-19.
Police teams have recovered highly sophisticated weapons that were smuggled from Pakistan from these defendants. Recoveries include two 30-hole drum machine guns, three pistols (SIG Sauer marked in Germany), two Glock pistols (made in Austria), two 30-hole pistols, one 32-hole pistol, one .315-hole rifle, 341 live cartridges and two drum magazines, 14 pistol magazines along with drug money of Rs 30, 8018 and Australian $ 100, Gupta said.
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