Four held in Kurukshetra with over 36 kg opium being smuggled from Jharkhand to Punjab

KURUKSHETRA: The crime investigation agency (CIA)-II of Kurukshetra police arrested four residents of Faridkot district of Punjab, after recovering 36.14 kg opium from their possession in Pehowa Sadar police station area in the early hours on Monday.
The arrested accused persons were identified as Punjab Singh, Gurwinder Singh, Sewa Singh and Jeet Basu, all residents of Koni in Sadiq police station area of Faridkot district. Kurukshetra superintendent of police (SP) Varun Singla said that the accused were smuggling opium from Jharkhand to Punjab via Haryana.
The accused persons were produced before the district court in Pehowa, from where, the police has sought a 10-day remand for investigating the forward and backward linkages.
The SP said the CIA-II team was present near Usmanpur village bus stop on the National Highway (NH) 152-D, under the leadership of DSP Pehowa Paramjit Singh. The CIA-II received the tip-off that the four arrested accused sell opium and they are traveling in two different Punjab number trucks with opium hidden in large quantities.
“It was informed that the accused would travel to Punjab via Haryana with opium from Jharkhand. Acting on the tip-off, checking was started near Usmanpur village when two suspect Punjab number trucks were stopped. During checking 36.140 kg opium was recovered from the possession of four accused Punjab, Gurdwara, Sewa and Jeet”, said SP Varun Singla.
The SP said a case under relevant Sections of the NDPS Act was registered against the accused persons at Pehowa Sadar police station.