Amritsar, Sept. 20 -- In a major breakthrough against cross-border narcotics trade, the Counter Intelligence (CI) unit in Amritsar has busted a drug smuggling network and arrested one operative with 5.032 kg of heroin. The network was being run under the direction of a foreign-based handler, Harpal Singh, said Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav on Saturday.

The arrested accused has been identified as Pawandeep Singh, a resident of Beharwal in Amritsar.

According to the DGP, preliminary interrogation revealed that Pawandeep was working under the instructions of Harpal Singh, a native of village Kohala in Amritsar who migrated to the USA two years ago. Singh is allegedly in direct contact with Pakistan-based smugglers an...