Four smugglers arrested with 63 KG opium.

PHAGWARA: The Goraya police on Thursday arrested four smugglers on the charge of supplying opium in Punjab and recovered from their possession a huge quantity of contraband.

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Mukhwinder Singh Bhullar said that 63 kilograms of opium loaded in two trucks and one tractor trolly was recovered from the possession of the accused identified as Gurpreet Singh @ Guri Singh a resident of Giddar Pindi village under Doraha police station Ludhiana driving the truck and his cleaner Jarnail Singh, Harmohan Singh Mohana a resident of Mannaki village under Samrala police station Ludhiana driving another truck and Jagjit Singh @Jita a resident of Giddar Pindi village under Doraha police station driving a tractor trolly.

SSP said that the Goraya Station House Officer Sukhdev Singh received secret information that the accused were bringing opium in huge quantities for supply in Amritsar under the garb of tea leaves supply from Manipur State.

SSP said the accused were intercepted at a special Naka and recovered opium from three vehicles kept in secret boxes.

SSP said that a case under sections 18(C)/25/31-A/85 of the NDPS Act has been registered against the accused by Goraya police and impounded three vehicles adding that Jagjit Singh Jita is notorious smuggler convicted in a drug case serving ten years imprisonment and was on parole.