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Punjab Cop Tasked With Stopping Smuggling Arrested With 15 kg Heroin Worth Rs 40 Crore
- •A Punjab Police constable deployed to prevent drone-based drug smuggling was arrested with 15 kg of heroin.
- •The seized drugs are estimated to be valued at more than Rs 40 crore in the Tarn Taran district.
- •The accused, identified as Karandeep Singh, was caught during a joint operation by the BSF and investigative agencies.
- •Officials stated that Singh was carrying the consignment from the border area to his native village Bhusse when intercepted.
- •Investigating agencies are actively probing the source of the heroin, intended recipients, and the wider trafficking network.
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A Punjab Police constable named Karandeep Singh, who was deployed to prevent drone-based drug smuggling along the International Border, was arrested with 15 kg of heroin valued at over Rs 40 crore in Tarn Taran district. He was also previously stationed as a clerk in a border police station and assigned to a jammer vehicle accompanying VVIP motorcades.
The accused constable was intercepted and arrested during a joint operation by the Border Security Force (BSF) and investigative agencies in the Sarai Amanat Khan area of the border district while allegedly carrying the consignment to his native village Bhusse. BSF also caught him red-handed in a Swift car at a checkpoint in the border area based on specific inputs.
Investigating agencies are actively probing the source of the seized heroin, the intended recipient of the consignment, and the broader network involved in the alleged trafficking operation. Authorities are also looking into how he utilized his VVIP duty and previous border police station experience to run the network.
