Tribune News Service
Chandigarh/Mohali, June 21
Punjab Police have busted a cross border smuggling module backed by Pak-ISI, with the arrest of its two operatives from Mohali, stated AIG SSOC SAS Nagar Ashwani Kapur right here on Wednesday. Police groups have additionally recovered two .30 bore pistols together with ten reside cartridges from their possession.
Those arrested have been recognized as Gurpreet Singh alias Gora alias Armaan Chauhan, a resident of village Kot Ise Khan in Moga and Rohit Singh, a resident of Sri Ganganagar in Rajasthan. Both the arrested individuals have prison background as circumstances below NDPS registered towards them in Punjab, whereas, they have been additionally needed by the NCB in a business amount drug smuggling case registered in Rajasthan.
AIG Ashwani Kapur stated preliminary investigations counsel that the arrested individuals have been key members of a extremely organised cross-border smuggling module that had direct hyperlinks to Pakistan-based drug smugglers. The module was actively concerned in smuggling of contraband throughout the Indo-Pakistan border, posing a major risk to nationwide safety, he stated.
The accused Gurpreet Singh alias Gora, who’s a mannequin and singer by career, performed essential roles in facilitating the motion of hawala cash— an unlawful and clandestine methodology of transferring funds, which additional enabled the financing of the cross-border smuggling actions.
The different accused, Rohit Singh used to supply location coordinates to Pakistan entities alongside the Rajasthan and Punjab border through Gurpreet Singh alias Gora and thus facilitated the retrieval of heroin consignments through drones.
The AIG stated that additional investigations are underway to establish and apprehend different people related to this module.
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