The Punjab Police on Thursday arrested 107 drug smugglers and recovered 1.2 kg heroin and Rs 21,980 drug money from their possession. With this, the total number of drug smugglers arrested in the state has reached 20,287 over the past four months. The operation was conducted on the directions of DGP Punjab Gaurav Yadav simultaneously in all 28 police districts of the state.
Special DGP (Law and Order) Arpit Shukla said over 220 police teams, comprising more than 1,500 police personnel under the supervision of 100 gazetted officers, conducted raids at 495 locations across the state, came across 506 suspicious persons and registered 78 FIRs under the day-long operation.
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