India, March 31 -- A drug smuggler linked to Pakistan and US-based drug syndicates was arrested with 15kg of heroin in Tarn Taran district on Monday.

Punjab Police chief Gaurav Yadav said the drug consignment recovered from the accused Harshpreet Singh of Roranwala in Amritsar was dropped using drones from Pakistan.

The director general of police said preliminary investigation showed that the consignment is linked to a network operated by US-based smuggler Gurnam Kallowal, who is in touch with a Pakistan-based smuggler, Pahalwan. The Pakistan peddler was using drones to drop the drug consignment from across the border. Harshpreet was retrieving the narcotics in the border area to further deliver it to local drug peddlers and was sending...