Five kg heroin, 2 pistols, cartridges seized from man in Amritsar

Heroin weighing five kilograms along with two pistols and cartridges was recovered from a man hailing from Ferozepurhere, police said on Wednesday.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of Punjab Police's counter intelligence wing stopped motorcycle-borne Bhalwan Singh on the Amritsar-Jalandhar national highway, they said.

During the search, police seized five kg of heroin, two pistols and 10 live cartridges from Singh.

A case under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act has been registered against the accused, they said.