Punjab Police bust cross-border drug smuggling racket, one held with 10 kg heroin
The arrested accused has been identified as Harmandeep Singh, a resident of village Ghumanpura in Amritsar.
The arrested accused has been identified as Harmandeep Singh, a resident of village Ghumanpura in Amritsar.
A US plane carrying 112 illegal immigrants from India landed late on Sunday night at Sri Guru Ramdasji International Airport in Amritsar amid tight security.
Amritsar Deputy Commissioner Sakshi Sawhney has said that 112 people were in the plane carrying third batch of Indian nationals who allegedly illegally migrated to the US, that landed in Amritsar on Sunday.
The second lot of Indians, who illegally migrated to the United States through donkey routes, landed at Sri Guru Ramdasji International Airport in the holy city of Amritsar in a US plane late on Saturday night.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann came hard on the Centre over the deportation of Indian citizens who allegedly illegally migrated to the United States, and said that Amritsar is being chosen deliberately to portray that only Punjabis are illegal migrants.
Assistant Commandant Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Ashok Choudhary said that a crane was brought to check if someone is trapped under the bus.
According to officials, the bus was on its way to Katra from Amritsar when the incident took place near Jhajjar Kotli - about 15km from Katra in Jammu district.
Earlier on Friday, BSF recovered a packet of suspected drugs weighing approximately 1 kg during a search operation in the Kori Creek in the Kutch region of Gujarat.
Congress stronghold, Jalandhar seat fell vacant after Congress' Member of Parliament (MP) Santokh Singh Chaudhary, 76, died of a heart attack during Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra in Punjab this January.
The arrests came hours after a third explosion took place on Wednesday midnight in Galiara, the pathway and park around the Golden Temple, behind Guru Ramdas Ji Niwas (inn) building, the police said.
