PO held with 250 gm heroin

Police said accused Harpreet Singh, alias Sonu Baba, of Attari village had links with some Pakistan-based smugglers

The crime investigation agency (CIA) wing of Amritsar commissionerate police arrested a proclaimed offender (PO), wanted in two drug cases, with 250 gm heroin at Chabhal road here on Saturday.

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Police said accused Harpreet Singh, alias Sonu Baba, of Attari village had links with some Pakistan-based smugglers. He had been getting the heroin supply from across the border, they said.

Addressing a press conference at his office, CIA wing in-charge Sukhwinder Singh Randhawa said Sonu Baba, wanted in two cases in which 1.5 kg heroin was seized, was arrested with the contraband at the Chabhal road naka.

Randhawa said earlier on March 18, they had arrested Sonu Baba’s brother-in-law Manjit Singh with 1 kg heroin. “When Manjit was interrogated, he told us that he had got the heroin from Sonu Baba, and was on his way to supply it in the villages. Soon after this, a trap was laid to arrest Sonu. A naka was set up in Islamabad area to arrest Sonu, who was on a Honda Activa scooter while his wife was a pillion rider. However, after seeing the police party, Sonu fled, but we had arrested his wife Sadhgi with 500 gm heroin,” said Randhawa. .

A case under the NDPS Act has already been registered against Sonu at Islamabad police station.