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Chandigarh : Before the Lok Sabha elections, a big drug smuggling gang has been busted in Chandigarh. The Anti Narcotics Task Force of Chandigarh Police has arrested three accused in the case of heroin smuggling across the border.
The accused include Vikramjeet Singh (28), owner of Mohali-based Punjabi music company Big Boys, his friend Avneet (22) and Ferozepur resident Lovepreet (29). Police have registered a case against all three under the NDPS Act. The police presented them in the district court, from where Lovepreet got 7 days remand and Vikramjeet got 5 days remand.
Police have recovered one and a half kilos of heroin from them, whose value in the international market is said to be around Rs 5 crore. According to the police, Lovepreet had links with a cross-border international drug smuggling gang. The police first caught Vikramjeet and Avneet and on their identification, Lovepreet was also arrested the next day.
The accused was caught by creating a blockade near Sector-42 Lake.
The Anti Narcotics Task Force had received information that a large consignment of heroin was going to be smuggled into the city. On receiving the information, the team set up a block near New Lake in Sector-42. Just then a car with Punjab number came there. When the police stopped the car and searched it, they recovered 1.01 kg of heroin from the dashboard of the car. They could not show any license or permit to the police regarding these.
The police took both of them into custody and started interrogation. During interrogation, he told the police that he used to take drugs from Lovepreet and then sell them around Chandigarh. Lovepreet is the son of a retired sub inspector of Punjab Police. Police also arrested Lovepreet on his identification. Lovepreet had earlier also been caught by the police in a drug smuggling case. Police recovered cars like Audi, Endeavour, Galanza from the accused. Apart from this, Rs 4.5 lakh in cash and a money counting machine were also recovered from them.
Avneet is addicted to drugs
Avneet Kaur is a native of Manimajra. He is a college dropout and a drug addict. He was friends with Vikramjeet. Both of them used to supply drugs in Chandigarh. He often went to supply drugs in a luxury car so that no one would suspect him.