Drug smuggler held in Punjab, heroin seized

The Punjab Police on Thursday claimed to have nabbed a drug peddler and recovered 1.4 kg of heroin, smuggled from Pakistan.

A Pakistani mobile SIM card was also seized from Sukhchain Singh, police said.

During interrogation, Singh revealed that he had hidden the drugs in the fields near the Indo-Pak border, police said.

In a joint operation with the BSF, the Punjab Police retrieved two packets containing 1.4 kg of heroin near the border village of Algo Kothia, they said.