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  • 73kg of heroin is seized at the Mumbai port: Kingpin's Assistant is apprehended near Ferozepur

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    73kg of heroin is seized at the Mumbai port: Kingpin's Assistant is apprehended near Ferozepur

    According to additional sources, Amarjit travelled to Ahmadabad with Gurwinder to deliver 4.20 lakh for the purchase of drone batteries.

    Digital Desk: An assistant to the
    case's kingpin was apprehended from Ferozepur on Wednesday morning, about two
    months after the Punjab Police and the Maharashtra Police, collaborated to
    confiscate 73kg of heroin from the Mumbai port.



    On July 16, the drugs were found by
    the police hidden within a container of white marbles being imported from the
    United Arab Emirates by a Delhi-based importer.



    A top official
    disclosed that during the investigation, the roles of Gurwinder Singh, a native
    of a border village under Amritsar (rural), his cousin Amarjit Singh, and two
    other people, based in Amritsar and Tarn Taran, were established.



     



    "Gurwinder, who is purportedly a heroin
    addict, apparently devised the entire scheme while working with Pakistani drug
    dealer Adil, while Amarjit and two other people helped with logistics.
    According to additional sources, Amarjit travelled to Ahmadabad with Gurwinder
    to deliver 4.20 lakh for the purchase of drone batteries.



     



    The case under Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic
    Substances Act was registered against the exporter, shipper, and other
    unidentified persons who facilitated the export and import of the contraband.