{"id":43055,"date":"2025-05-16T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/?p=43055"},"modified":"2025-05-16T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:09:07","slug":"day-76-of-yudh-nashian-virudh-146-drug-smugglers-held-with-87kg-heroin-42k-drug-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/punjab\/day-76-of-yudh-nashian-virudh-146-drug-smugglers-held-with-87kg-heroin-42k-drug-money\/","title":{"rendered":"DAY 76 OF \u2018YUDH NASHIAN VIRUDH\u2019: 146 DRUG SMUGGLERS HELD WITH 87KG HEROIN, \u20b942K DRUG MONEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Punjab News:<\/span> With the war against drugs \u201cYudh Nashian Virudh\u201d waged on the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann to eradicate drug menace from state entered 76th day, Punjab Police on Friday arrested 146 drug smugglers and recovered 87 kg heroin, 1 kg opium, 407 kg poppy husk and Rs 42005 drug money from their possession. With this, the number of total drug smugglers arrested has reached to 11,430 in just 76 days.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The operation was conducted on the directions of Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav simultaneously in all 28 Police districts of the state.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notably, CM Bhagwant Singh Mann has asked the Commissioners of Police, Deputy Commissioners and Senior Superintendent of Police to make Punjab drug free state. The Punjab government has also constituted a 5-member Cabinet Sub Committee led by Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema to monitor the war against drugs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Divulging details, Special DGP Law and Order Arpit Shukla informed that over 200 Police teams, comprising over 1500 police personnel, under the supervision of 92 gazetted officers have conducted raids at as many as 543 locations across the state leading to the registration of 118 first information reports (FIRs) across the state. Police teams have also checked as many as 619 suspicious persons during the day long operation, he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Special DGP said that with the state government has enforced a three-pronged strategy\u2014 Enforcement, Deaddiction and Prevention (EDP)\u2014 to eradicate drugs from the state, the Punjab Police as part of \u2018De-addiction\u2019 has convinced 122 persons to undergo de-addiction and rehabilitation treatment today.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab News: With the war against drugs \u201cYudh Nashian Virudh\u201d waged on the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann to eradicate drug menace from state entered 76th day, Punjab Police on Friday arrested 146 drug smugglers and recovered 87 kg heroin, 1 kg opium, 407 kg poppy husk and Rs 42005 drug money from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-punjab"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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