The Punjab Police, acting on secret information, nabbed two accused who were involved in cross-border drug and arms smuggling. They were in contact with smugglers in Pakistan.
The police officer said that the task force team raided near Modi Dhaba on Mangrol Road, where two persons standing with plastic bags allegedly tried to flee after seeing the police. The police team surrounded and caught both of them.
The BSF informed the local police after the incident and handed over the bodies to them. The smugglers are yet to be identified.
The operations, which took place on September 23-24, 2023, resulted in the recovery of 689.52 grams of heroin in the general areas of Chhungte and Zote.
The incident took place on Saturday night in Kotdi police station and Raika police station areas when police teams were patrolling after setting up barricades.
Smugglers cut down 150 sandalwood trees belonging to a farmer and decamped with logs from a village in Shivamogga district.
The customs department of Mumbai recovered foreign currency worth Rs 45 lakh in Mumbai on February 11. It was seized from possession of a man naming Murad Alam who was travelling from Dubai to Mumbai in Air India flight.
A special operations group of J&K police along with officials of Samba police intercepted a truck at Mansar and found 130 kg poppy during a search of the vehicle, officials said.
Three arms smugglers were arrested in Tripura and Japanese pistols, a huge number of bullets and six sets of mobile phones were recovered from them, police said in Agartala on Friday.
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