Border Force Constable Arrested In Drugs, Arms Smuggling Racket: Cops
The constable used to be posted at a Border Outpost in Taran Tarn district. (Representational)
Chandigarh:
A BSF constable and two others were arrested in a cross-border smuggling racket of gear and guns, the Punjab police stated on Sunday.
A .30 bore, made-in-China pistol along side 5 reside cartridges and Rs 24.50 lakh had been recovered from the 3 accused, known as Border Safety Pressure Constable Rajendra Prashad and two locals, Surmail Singh and Gurjant Singh, stated Director Normal of Police Dinkar Gupta.
The BSF constable, a resident of Ganga Nagar district of Rajasthan, used to be posted at a Border Outpost at Chhina village in Taran Tarn district.
Mr Prashad is the second one BSF constable arrested just lately by way of the Punjab police in a cross-border smuggling racket. The police had arrested any other BSF constable, Sumit Kumar, posted at Sambha in Jammu and Kashmir, in any other cross-border smuggling case.
Giving main points of the operation, Gupta stated performing on a tip-off, a Jalandhar Rural police group had on July 26 apprehended two smugglers, who had been coming in a automotive from Delhi.
The police officers had recovered 25 gm of heroin from them. On wondering, the duo known themselves as Surmail Singh and Gurjant Singh.
Surmail’s additional wondering resulted in the restoration of the pistol along side 5 reside rounds.
Right through wondering, the duo had additionally published that they had been operating with a cross-border smuggler, Satnam Singh alias Satta, a resident of Taran Tarn district.
Satta used to be intently related with Pak-based smugglers in smuggling heroin and guns from Pakistan.
Additionally they disclosed that BSF constable Rajendra Prashad used to be additionally concerned within the smuggling racket.
The DGP stated he contacted his opposite numbers within the BSF and Rajasthan for the arrest of the BSF constable.
He used to be apprehended by way of the Punjab police on July 28 from his place of dwelling in Rawala Mandi, the place he used to be availing his depart, stated the DGP in a remark in Chandigarh.
Right through wondering, the BSF constable published that he were roped into the drug smuggling racket by way of Satnam Singh, who promised him cash for ignoring the smuggling of hands and narcotics consignment thru his border put up.
He then allowed the group to usher in a consignment of 17 kg of heroin and two foreign-made pistols in Might.
This time once more, Satnam Singh, in connivance with Rajendra Prashad, Surmail Singh and Gurjant Singh, used to be to usher in any other consignment of heroin and hands from his Pakistan-based handlers.
Satnam had allegedly given Rs five lakh and a cell phone to Prashad prematurely for receiving this composite consignment.
The DGP stated out of Rs 24.five lakh, Rs 15 lakh used to be recovered from the place of dwelling of Satnam Singh, Rs five lakh from the BSF constable and Rs four.five lakh from Gurjant Singh.
The police had been operating to get the kingpin, Satnam Singh, extradited from Muscat, Oman, the place he had fled after he used to be declared proclaimed perpetrator in two smuggling instances.
He used a faux Passport and Aadhar card issued within the title of Gurmeet Singh to flee, stated DGP Gupta.
The accused had 5 instances of smuggling registered in opposition to him previous.
Satnam Singh’s ill-gotten belongings, which he had bought the use of drug cash within the title of his circle of relatives relative Maninder Kaur at Sandhu Colony Amritsar, has been frozen, he added.
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