511 gms of heroin seized from field

The Khalra police and the BSF in a joint search operation launched in the fields of farmer Gurwinder Singh of Dall village on Sunday recovered 511 grams of heroin which was smuggled from Pakistan via a drone.

SSP Abhimanyu said here on Monday that a case under Sections 21-C, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act and Sections 10, 11 and 12 of the Aircraft Act has been registered. The SSP said the police were tracing the suspected who brought the consignment from Pakistan.

In another case, a team of the local CIA staff led by Sub-Inspector Sukhdev Singh arrested Anmoldeep Singh, a resident of Dhala village, yesterday. The accused has been booked under Sections of the NDPS Act by the Sarai Amanat Khan.