Chandigarh, May 4 (IANS) In a crackdown on organised crime in Punjab’s border-sharing villages, the police in Tarn Taran have come down heavily on the drug trade involving Pakistan, which had been enabling gangsters to finance and run their illegal operations in the state. Over the past three months, since the ‘Gangstran te Vaar’ operation by the government, the district police have registered 490 cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, arrested 630 individua…
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Chandigarh, April 29 (IANS) Punjab Police have installed 2,291 CCTV cameras at 585 locations along the international border with Pakistan as part of this second line of defence, creating a dense surveillance net across vulnerable villages and transit routes. Under “Gangstran Te Vaar”, the police are strengthening the technology-driven security grid designed to choke the very lifelines of organised crime networks operating with cross-border linkages.While the Border Security Force (BSF) continues…
Chandigarh, April 11 (IANS) The Punjab government on Saturday said it has authorised the Punjab Police to reward informants under its new ‘reward policy’ for sharing information regarding wanted criminals and gangsters or their network in the state. It also released a list of 28 most wanted criminals. Under the project ‘Gangstran Te Vaar’, the government has approved sanction powers up to Rs 1 lakh to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP); Rs 1.5 lakh to Commissioner of Police, Range Ins…
Chandigarh, Feb 8 (IANS) Punjab’s Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav on Sunday announced the launch of 72-hour-long Operation Prahaar – 2 with the focus on nabbing wanted criminals.The DGP, accompanied by Special DGP, Law and Order, Arpit Shukla, ADGP, Anti-Narcotics Task Force, Nilabh Kishore and Intelligence chief, Sukhchain Singh Gill, told the media that the Operation Prahaar resulted in the arrest of 3,256 individuals in 72 hours and 69 weapons were recovered from their possess…
Chandigarh, Feb 4 (IANS) In a major breakthrough against trans-border narcotic smuggling networks, Punjab Police, in a joint operation with the Border Security Force (BSF), has recovered 3.925 kg heroin from agricultural fields of the Border Outpost (BOP) in Kaalian in Tarn Taran, said Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav here on Wednesday.Apart from recovering the heroin consignment, police teams have also recovered a DJI Matrice drone, used by the Pakistan-based smugglers to push the …