Police busted an ISI-backed narco-fright module, allegedly smuggling heroin and weapons from Pakistan, with the arrest of three folks and recovery of 2 kg heroin and an Austria-made Glock 9mm pistol from them.
Deputy inspector long-established of Patiala vary, Kuldeep Singh Chahal said that following a tip-off, Barnala police caught Gagandeep Singh alias Gagan, a resident of Hamidi village, with 52 gm heroin from the Fazilka-Barnala link avenue on January 10.
All the diagram by diagram of sustained interrogation, Gagan gave up the names of his pals, Rajkaran Singh alias Goga, a resident of Chak Wajida, Fazilka, and Saraj Singh, a resident of Habibwala, Ferozepur. The 2 pals had been subsequently arrested.
As per the police, Gagan’s interrogation and an diagnosis of electronic proof printed that the accused had come fervent with one Jaj Singh alias Jaji, a resident of Fazilka, when he became lodged within the Faridkot prison.
Jaj Singh is imagined to were fervent with a Pakistan-basically basically basically based handler “Haji” , allegedly an ISI-linked agent. It became Gagan who got Rajkaran and Saraj fervent with Jaj Singh and at final with the Pakistan-basically basically basically based handler to facilitate execrable-border heroin and hands provide with the abet of drones.
While at the origin a case under slightly heaps of sections of Narcotics Remedy and Psychotropic Substances Act and Sections 111 (trafficking) and 112 (organised crime) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) became registered, police added Half 113(3) (abetting, conspiring, or facilitating a terrorist act) and 152 (acts endangering the nation’s sovereignty) of the BNS and Half 5 of the Legitimate Secrets Act as an espionage perspective emerged. As per the police, the Pakistan-basically basically basically based handler old to ship Gagan the bank details of his alleged “spies” in India to deposit cash of their accounts. It became moreover found that Gagan had shared photos of BSF posts as demanded by Pakistan handlers. He is a historical previous sheeter, police said, adding that there are a selection of drug cases registered against him in Sangrur, Barnala and Malerkotla. His affiliate Saraj is an accused in a 5kg heroin recovery case in Fazilka final October.
