PUNJAB POLICE BUST DRONE-BASED ARMS SMUGGLING MODULE, 1 PRISONER HELD

The decisive war against anti-social elements waged on the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has delivered yet another victory after Punjab Police on Wednesday busted a drone-based arms and ammunition smuggling module with the arrest of its two members, including a prisoner.
Those arrested have been identified as Jaskaran Singh of Bhikhiwind in Tarn Taran, currently lodged at Sub Jail Goindwal Sahib, and Rattanbir Singh of Khemkaran in Tarn Taran, out on bail. The police also recovered ten foreign-made pistols, including five.30 bore (made in China) and five 9mm (made in the United States by Beretta), as well as eight spare magazines for both, as well as a mobile phone hidden by Jaskaran in his barrack.
AIG Counter Intelligence (CI) Amritsar Amarjit Singh Bajwa said that accused Jaskaran Singh was brought on a production warrant in a case pertaining to the NDPS act, which was registered at SSOC Amritsar in August 2022.
During questioning, accused Jaskaran confessed that he was using a mobile phone in jail to contact Pakistan-based smugglers through WhatsApp for the smuggling of narcotics and arms/ammunition from Pakistan via drones.
The AIG said that for this purpose, the accused was taking the help of Rattanbir, who was used to retrieving the consignments dropped via drones from different border areas. Pertinently, Rattanbir is also a co-accused in various NDPS cases with Jaskaran Singh.
He said that one consignment of five .30 bore pistols along with four spare magazines was recovered from the pinpointed location revealed by accused Jaskaran at Village Pidhi on the Taran Taran-Ferozepur Road, which was concealed by Rattanbir on the intervening nights of September 28 and 29, 2022.
Amarjit Singh Bajwa said that acting on Jaskaran’s inputs, the police teams of Counter Intelligence Amritsar have also managed to arrest Rattanbir from Khemkaran and, on his disclosure, and five more pistols of 9 MM were recovered along with four spare magazines.