{"id":58216,"date":"2026-01-04T20:15:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/?p=58216"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:16:20","slug":"punjab-police-nabs-94-drug-smugglers-with-593gms-heroin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/punjab\/punjab-police-nabs-94-drug-smugglers-with-593gms-heroin\/","title":{"rendered":"PUNJAB POLICE NABS 94 DRUG SMUGGLERS WITH 593GMs HEROIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Punjab 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 309th day, Punjab Police conducted raids at 312 locations on Sunday leading to the arrest of 94 drug smugglers after registration of 79 first information reports (FIRs) across the state. With this, the number of total drug smugglers arrested has reached to 43,206 in 309 days.<\/p>\n<p>The raids have resulted in recovery of 593 grams heroin, 1.2 kg opium, 1198 intoxicant tablets\/capsules and Rs 11,620 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 120 Police teams, comprising over 1000 police personnel, under the supervision of 71 gazetted officers have conducted 312 raids across the state. Police teams have also checked as many as 320 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 61 persons to undergo de-addiction and rehabilitation treatment today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab 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 309th day, Punjab Police conducted raids at 312 locations on Sunday leading to the arrest of 94 drug smugglers after registration of 79 first information reports (FIRs) across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":57394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58216","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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