Jalandhar, May 22 -- The Jalandhar commissionerate police on Wednesday said it busted a cross-border drug smuggling racket, arresting a person and seizing 5-kg heroin from his possession.

The accused has been identified as Shivam Sodhi, a local resident. As much as Rs.22,000 drug money has been seized, the police said.

Commissioner of police Dhanpreet Kaur Randhawa said the breakthrough choked the local drug supply chain. She said CIA teams, acting on a tip-off, conducted a special raid near Lamma Pind Chowk and nabbed the accused against whom an FIR was registered under the NDPS Act at the division number 8 police station.

"In the preliminary investigation, it came to fore that three FIRs under relevant sections pertaining to drug smu...