{"id":55039,"date":"2025-11-12T18:15:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/?p=55039"},"modified":"2025-11-12T18:50:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:20:37","slug":"yudh-nashian-virudh-on-day-256-punjab-police-nabs-59-drug-smugglers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/punjab\/yudh-nashian-virudh-on-day-256-punjab-police-nabs-59-drug-smugglers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018YUDH NASHIAN VIRUDH\u2019: ON DAY 256, PUNJAB POLICE NABS 59 DRUG SMUGGLERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Punjab E News:<\/span> Continuing the war against drugs \u201cYudh Nashian Virudh\u201d waged by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann to eradicate drug menace from state consecutively for the 256th day, Punjab Police conducted raids at 286 locations on Wednesday leading to the arrest of 59 drug smugglers after registration of 42 first information reports (FIRs) across the state. With this, the number of total drug smugglers arrested has reached to 36,257 in 256 days.<\/p>\n<p>The raids have resulted in recovery of 274 grams heroin, 3 kg ganja, 389 intoxicant pills and Rs 1910 drug money from the possession of arrested drug smugglers.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Over 100 Police teams, comprising over 800 police personnel, under the supervision of 56 gazetted officers have conducted 286 raids across the state. Police teams have also checked as many as 322 suspicious persons during the day-long operation.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8216;De-addiction\u2019 has convinced 35 persons to undergo de-addiction and rehabilitation treatment today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab E News: Continuing the war against drugs \u201cYudh Nashian Virudh\u201d waged by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann to eradicate drug menace from state consecutively for the 256th day, Punjab Police conducted raids at 286 locations on Wednesday leading to the arrest of 59 drug smugglers after registration of 42 first information reports (FIRs) across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-latest","category-punjab"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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