Chandigarh, March 11 -- The Punjab Police on Tuesday conducted raids at 580 locations across the state leading to the arrest of 110 drug smugglers, officials said.

In the ongoing anti-drugs drive launched on February 26, the police have arrested 1,540 smugglers so far, said an official spokesperson, adding that police teams have recovered 2.8kg heroin, 500gm opium, 10,904 intoxicating tablets/injections and Rs.2.88 lakh drug money from the possession of arrested drug smugglers. The operation is being conducted simultaneously in all 28 police districts of the state, the spokesperson said.

Special DGP (law and order) Arpit Shukla said that over 220 police teams, comprising over 1,600 personnel, under the supervision of 107 gazetted office...