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Punjab Police on Wednesday launched a massive state-wide operation named “OP Clean” wherein 650 police teams comprising over 5,000 personnel raided more than 2,000 locations across the state to keep a tab on activities of people involved in smuggling of commercial quantities of drugs.
Disclosing this here on Wednesday, Special DGP Law and Order Arpit Shukla said the operation was conducted on the directions of Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav.
“Places/houses linked with the drug smugglers/drug peddlers were raided simultaneously during this operation, which was conducted from 7 am to 12 noon. All the CPs/SSPs were asked to personally monitor this operation and make a sufficient number of police teams under the supervision of gazetted rank officers, so that they could carry out raids in a synchronised manner,” he added.
As many as 650 police teams, involving over 5,500 police personnel, raided 2,247 locations and conducted searches at 2,125 houses of people having involvement in drug smuggling cases.
The Special DGP said that the police teams recovered 1.8 kg heroin, 82 kg poppy husk, 1 kg opium, Rs 5.35 lakh drug money and four weapons from them, besides recovering illicit liquor, lahan (raw material used to make liquor) and vehicles after registering 48 FIRs across the state. Police teams also seized 78 mobile phones, which will be sent for forensic examination.
Shukla said that a thorough search of houses of people involved in drug smuggling was conducted during the operation.
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