Chandigarh, April 6 -- Continuing their action against drugs "Yudh Nashian Virudh" waged on the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann to eradicate drug menace from state consecutively for the 37th day, Punjab Police on Sunday conducted raids at 337 locations leading to the arrest of 54 drug smugglers after registration of 37 first information reports (FIRs) across the state.

As per an official release, the number of total drug smugglers arrested has reached 5,169 in just 37 days.

Police teams have also recovered 411 grams of heroin, 1617 intoxicant tablets/pills and Rs 34,400 drug money from the possession of arrested drug smugglers.

The operation was conducted simultaneously in all 28 police districts of the state on the di...