AMRITSAR, July 6 -- The counter intelligence (CI) wing of Amritsar police has busted a cross-border narcotics smuggling module with links to Pakistan and arrested four of its operatives after recovering 5kg heroin from their possession, director general of police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav on Saturday.

Those arrested have been identified as Resham Singh, Gurpinder Singh of Dhanoe Kalan in Amritsar and Rooppreet Singh and Shubhkar Manjit Singh of Sehnewali, also in Amritsar. Apart from recovering 5kg heroin, police teams have also impounded their Mahindra Thar (PB08-FC-7002) and Hero Splendor motorcycle (PB02-DV-6761) being used for transporting the consignments.

Yadav said that preliminary investigations have revealed that the accused were acti...