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From March 16, 2022 to March 15 this year, Punjab Police have busted 26 terror modules with the arrest of 168 terrorist/radicals after recovering 31 rifles, 201 revolvers/pistols, 9 tiffin Improvised Explosive Device (IEDs), 8.72 kg RDX and other explosives, 11 hand grenades, two sleeves of disposed rocket launcher, 30 drones, and one loaded Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG), Punjab Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav said, presenting the one-year performance of State police after the formation of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab.
The DGP said “the law and order situation in the border state has witnessed a considerable improvement as majority of criminals and gangsters have been put behind the bar, while, many of them chose to leave the state amidst the strict vigil kept by Punjab police on the movement of anti-social elements.”
He said “the Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF), since its formation on April 6, 2022, has succeeded in busting 162 gangster/criminal modules after arresting 582 gangsters/criminals and neutralising five, recovering 586 weapons and 131 vehicles used in criminal activities.”
DGP said that “there were six major heinous crime incidents including an RPG attack at Intelligence Headquarters building at Mohali; murder of Punjabi singer Shubhdeep Singh alias Sidhu Moosewala; killing of Bargari sacrilege accused Pardeep Kumar; RPG attack at police station Sarhali, Tarn Taran; killings of Sudhir Suri and Bhupinder Singh Chawla alias Timmy Chawla, that took place since April 2022, and the Punjab Police have managed to effectively solve all these cases in a record time.”
“To make Punjab a drug-free state”, the DGP said. “the Punjab Police had waged a decisive war against drugs which resulted in the arrest of as many as 17568 drug smugglers after registering 13094 FIRs since March 16, 2022 against them. Punjab Police have effectively recovered a record 863.9 kg heroin in just one year.”
He added, “Pertinently, Punjab police have recovered 716.9 kg heroin from across the state and additionally 147.5 kg heroin was recovered by the teams of Punjab police from seaports of Gujarat and Maharashtra, taking the total effective recovery of heroin to 863.9 kg.”
He said that “under the ongoing special drive to arrest proclaimed offenders (POs)/absconders in NDPS cases, Punjab Police have arrested 828 POs/absconders since March 16, 2022.”
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