Ludhiana, Feb. 28 -- The local police on Friday registered two cases after recoveries of drugs during a search operation in eight villages in Dehlon, officials said.

They said the search operation as part of their ongoing 'war against drugs' lasted for three hours and police searched houses of people already nominated in drug-related first-information reports (FIR).

In the first case, Dehlon police registered an FIR against Gurpreet Singh alias Mana, from whom 250 intoxicating pills have been recovered. A case under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act act has been registered against him.

In the second case, police booked Jagdeep Singh and Harmandeep Singh from whom the police respectively recovered 170 and 230 intoxic...