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Drug smuggler held in Punjab, heroin seized

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Press Trust of India Amritsar

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.

 

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First Published: Sep 06 2018 | 8:30 PM IST

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