Patiala Police Detains 185 Small & Big Drug Smugglers In 17 Days

As per reports, the Patiala police officials have detained 185 small and big drug smugglers as well as traffickers during the last 17 days and got 37 punished.

The director general of police made declaration about this anti-drug operation on April 1.

Mr. Paramjit Singh Gill, inspector general of police in the range that covers Patiala, Sangrur, Mohali, Barnala, Nawanshahr and Rupnagar regions stated, “The plan is to break the peddlers’ delivery string by spreading our groups in every police region.”

The city police lead the movement by making almost 95 arrests and lodging 85 first-information reports (FIRs). Out of the other detentions, 36 were in the city of  Nawanshahr; thirty-two in the city of  Sangrur, twelve in the city of  Mohali, and 7 in the city of  Rupnagar.

“From big fish to drug runners on the street, the police have caught all kinds. With the detention of these terrible elements, the chart of petty offense has also falledeclined, as the majority of peddlers are also into snatching chains, purses and cellular telephones,” Mr. Paramjit Singh Gill also said.

The police officials have exposed the drug-supply chain only in part.

“Drugs can be handed over at doorstep on just a phone call, so it is hard to catch all traders,” added the IGP, “as they keep moving door to door to supply drugs.”

Gill has assigned the senior superintendent of police to make sure speedy examination and maximum certainty in cases lodged under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

“In just a period of 20 days of the said drive, 37 drugs peddlers have been punished, 18 of them in the city of Patiala,” Gill added.

The major hauls, up till now, have been 18 kg opium, 17 qunital poppy husk, 718 gram smack, 1 kiligram heroin, 80,000 drug capsules, and 12 litres of chemical raw material for heroin.