Drug peddlers’ properties worth Rs 37 crore frozen

Amritsar, August 21

Within one-and-half-month of the arrest of two drug peddlers with the contraband, the Amritsar (Rural) police have identified their properties and frozen them after getting approval from the competent authorities. The police froze their properties worth Rs 37.72 crore located in Mode, a border village, and a commercial property on the Kale Ghanupur road.

Charanjit Singh, SSP, Amritsar (Rural) police, said Jatin Singh and Ajaypal Singh of Mode border village falling under the Gharinda police station were arrested with 500 gm of heroin and an illegal .32 bore pistol. The SSP said a case under the NDPS Act and the Arms Act was registered against the duo at the Gharinda police station on July 2.

“The police identified their properties which they had purchased from the ill-gotten money earned through the illegal drug trade. The list was sent to the competent authorities which gave their go ahead to freeze properties,” the SSP said.

The police seized a residential building of Jatin Singh located in Mode village. The market value of the building was stated to be Rs 5.85 lakh. Similarly, the police froze properties belonging to Ajaypal which include a house, a shop and a banquet hall located opposite the OCM Mill on the Chheharta road. The police also froze another property — a residential house in Mode village — that belonged to Ajaypal. The market value of the properties that belonged to the two drug peddlers was estimated at Rs 37.72 crore.

The SSP said, “There are clear cut instructions to identify properties of drug peddlers and freeze them in order to break their back financially.”