On February 5, a US military aircraft carrying 104 deportees had landed in Amritsar. Of them, 33 people each were from Haryana and Gujarat and 30 were from Punjab. (File photo)
On Friday, the Punjab Police said they had arrested one smuggler and seized thirty kilogrammes of heroin, breaking up a cross-border drug trafficking ring.
Two “smugglers” carrying 1.1-kg heroin-like substance were arrested near the international border in Amritsar, the BSF’s Punjab Frontier said on Wednesday. Personnel from the Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF), Amritsar, were also involved in the operation, officials said. (Representational image)
A 33-year-old man from Ramdas village in Amritsar district died of cardiac arrest in Guatemala during a journey to the United States through the illegal ‘dunki’ route, his family confirmed on Sunday.
Police officials escort immigrants deported from the United States, who were among those who arrived in a US military plane on Wednesday in Amritsar, upon their arrival at the Ahmedabad airport in India, on Thursday,