Ferozepur: The Punjab Police has arrested three persons near here for allegedly smuggling heroin from Pakistan into the state and seized 3 kg of the contraband from them. Acting on a tip-off, the police arrested the accused -- Jagdish Singh (30), Swarn Singh, a resident of Rajo Ke village in Tarn Taran district, and Gurdev Singh, a resident of Rajatal village in Amritsar, last evening, Assistant Inspector General (counter intelligence wing) Narinder Pal Singh said today.

Ferozepur: The Punjab Police has arrested three persons near here for allegedly smuggling heroin from Pakistan into the state and seized 3 kg of the contraband from them. Acting on a tip-off, the police arrested the accused -- Jagdish Singh (30), Swarn Singh, a resident of Rajo Ke village in Tarn Taran district, and Gurdev Singh, a resident of Rajatal village in Amritsar, last evening, Assistant Inspector General (counter intelligence wing) Narinder Pal Singh said today.

Jagdish, a resident of Fazilka, owned land across the sealed border and was in touch with Pakistani drug smugglers. He was working as a "conduit" and supplied the heroin consignment, received from Pakistan, to the other drug peddlers in the area, he said. "He used to get Rs 2 lakh for per kg from Pakistani agents for allowing them to use his fields to conceal the consignment," Singh said. Swarn and Gurdev were Jagdish's regular customers, he said.

"During the preliminary interrogation, it was revealed that Jagdish sold 2 kg heroin to Swarn and Gurdev last week also. Yesterday evening, all of them were nabbed along with the consignment near Ferozepur," he added. A case under relevant sections of the  Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act has been registered against them, Singh said. PTI