Hoshiarpur, June 2

In a crackdown on drug smugglers, the district police arrested three drug smugglers and recovered intoxicants and drug money from them here on Tuesday.

SSP Navjot Singh Mahal said a special campaign was launched by the district police in which a special team had been formed under the leadership of SP (Investigation) Ravinder Pal Singh Sandhu. He informed that a team of the city police on Tuesday evening recovered 300 gm of intoxicating powder, 30 gm of heroin, Rs 4,56,000 drug money from a youth, identified as Aman Kumar, alias Amna, a resident of Allahabad who was riding a motorcycle without number. A case has been registered against him under the NDPS Act. Earlier too, five cases were registered against Aman under the same Act.

The SSP said in the second case, the police arrested a truck driver, Gurpreet Singh of Fatehgarh Chungi, presently residing in Arora Colony, and cleaner Baljit Singh of Ajit Nagar in Islamabad, and recovered 7 kg of poppy husk from the truck. They have been booked. — OC