Acting on a tip-off, the anti-gangster force of the city police today busted an interstate gang of weapon smugglers, including a jail inmate and confiscated three country-made pistols and two live bullets from their possession.
Over 16 kg of narcotics, including 2.2 kg of heroin, two rifles and three pistols were recovered during raids on the properties of three alleged drug peddlers in Tarn Taran as part of a money laundering probe into a drug trafficking case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said today.
The Amritsar Central jail authorities have confiscated 19.50-gm opium from a prisoner identified as Satnam Singh of Harike while a mobile phone was seized from another inmate Harmesh Kumar of Chheharta.
Every day, we read news about somebody or the other dying of drugs. On Tuesday, there were three such stories. In Taran Taran district, two youths, one aged 18 and the other aged 26 years died due to drugs. In Amritsar, two brothers of a family died due to drugs.