Batala police freeze properties of two big-time heroin smugglers
The Batala police have ‘frozen’ the residential properties of two big-time drug runners involved in the smuggling of heroin.
This is being considered as a major step in countering the scourge of heroin smuggling in Batala police district.
Prabhjot Singh, SHO of Qila Lal Singh police station, said the police had issued freezing orders of properties worth Rs 40 lakh against Lakhwinder Singh and Jagdeep Singh Jagga, both residents of Akarwal village of Batala police district. The property of Jagga’s wife Kulwinder Kaur has also been frozen as her husband had acquired them in her name.
The two were on the radar of the Batala police for quite some time now.
The police took this action under Section 68F (2) of the NDPS Act.
Around 525 grams of heroin had been recovered in the last two months following which they were arrested. Once a property is frozen, it cannot be sold or transferred to anybody.
SHO Prabhjot Singh had conducted financial investigations of both the smugglers into the illegal acquisition of wealth through drug money.
“The reasons recorded for issuing the freezing order reveals that the smugglers were actively involved in drug trafficking through which they had generated illicit money. Thus, it is apparent that the properties have been acquired from the income earned by them through drug trafficking,” said the SHO.
Notices have been pasted by the police on the walls of residential properties informing people that they had been frozen.
Both were on police radar
- The police had issued freezing orders of properties worth Rs 40 lakh against Lakhwinder Singh and Jagdeep Singh Jagga, both residents of Akarwal village of Batala police district. The property of Jagga's wife Kulwinder Kaur has also been frozen as her husband had acquired them in her name. The two were on the radar of the Batala police for quite some time now. The police took this action under Section 68F (2) of the NDPS Act.
- SHO Prabhjot Singh had conducted financial investigations of both the smugglers into the illegal acquisition of wealth through drug money.
