Punjab Police arrested 143 terrorists in one year

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Punjab Police against Drug: With the completion of one year of the decisive war against drugs launched on the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to root out the menace of drugs, the Punjab Police has arrested 16360 drug traffickers including 2351 big fish since 5th July 2022. Apart from this, a total of 12218 FIRs have been registered by the police out of which 1458 are related to commercial matters.

Inspector General of Police Headquarters Sukhchain Singh Gill while addressing the press conference said that the police teams have recovered 1073.44 kg of heroin from across the state by setting up checkpoints on sensitive roads in addition to conducting cordon and search operations in drug-affected areas. Apart from this, Punjab Police teams recovered 147.5 kg of heroin from Gujarat and Maharashtra ports, taking the total recovery of heroin to 1220.94 kg in just one year.

IGP He said that apart from recovering a large consignment of heroin, the police recovered 797.14 kg of opium, 902.13 kg of ganja, 375.47 quintal of poppy and 65.49 lakh pills/capsules/injections/vials from across the state. The police have also recovered drug money worth Rs 12.33 crore from the possession of the arrested drug traffickers during the last one year.

He said that during the last year, the Punjab Police has seized properties worth Rs 26.72 crore from 66 drug smugglers. He said that 13 properties worth Rs 2.34 crores in Barnala district, 9 properties worth Rs 1.72 crores in Fazilka district and 6 properties worth Rs 1.13 crores in Malerkotla district have been seized from the said drug traffickers.

Giving weekly updates, IGP In the last one week, police registered 205 FIRs including 32 commercial cases and arrested 297 drug traffickers/suppliers and recovered 5.52 kg heroin, 11.34 kg opium, 4.02 kg ganja, 5.22 quintal poppy, 56107 Apart from tablets/capsules/injections/pharma opioids, drug money of Rs.4.33 lakh has been recovered.

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He said that with 10 more fugitives arrested in NDPS cases in the last one week, the total number of arrests after the special drive launched on July 5, 2022 to arrest POs/fugitives has now reached 964. Apart from this, IGP Sukhchain Singh Gill said that after the government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann came to power, the law and order situation in the state has also improved a lot.

Official data from July 5, 2022 to July 16, 2023 shows that the Punjab Police seized 31 rifles, 209 revolvers/pistols, 5 Tiffin Improvised Explosive Devices (IIDs), 6.78 kg of RDX and other explosives. , arrested 143 terrorists/extremists and busted 18 terrorist modules after recovering 10 hand grenades, one sleeve of disposed rocket launcher, 51 drones, and one loaded rocket propelled grenade.

Similarly, the Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) constituted on April 6, 2022 has so far arrested 688 gangsters/criminals, busted 5 gangsters/criminals, busted 208 modules and recovered 667 arms and ammunition from their possession. 157 vehicles used in criminal activities have been recovered. It is to be noted that soon after coming to power, the state government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann formed a special Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) under the leadership of ADGP Pramod Ban to wipe out gangsters from the state.

It may be mentioned that the Director General of Police (DGP), Punjab Gaurav Yadav had given strict instructions to all the CPs/SSPs to thoroughly investigate the back-and-forth links in each case, especially related to the recovery of drugs, even if Even a small quantity of drugs may have been recovered from them.

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