Chandigarh, Dec. 10 -- The Punjab Police on Tuesday carried out a special operation aimed at checking all the vehicles entering or exiting Punjab to keep vigil around anti-social elements, drug traffickers and bootleggers. In the operation, conducted simultaneously in all the districts on directions of Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav, all the SSPs of border districts were directed to organise joint Naka operations at strategic places in their respective districts and mobilise a maximum number of manpower to lay checkpoints at sealing points under the supervision of gazetted officers/SHOs. Sharing details, special DGP (law and order) Arpit Shukla said that well-coordinated nakas involving over 600 police personnel were set up under supervision of inspectors/DSPs at least 65 entry/exit points of 10 districts. The 10 inter-state border districts include Pathankot, Muktsar Sahib, Fazilka, Rupanagar, Mohali, Patiala, Sangrur, Mansa, Hoshiarpur and Bathinda. He said that as many as 1,182 vehicles entering/exiting the state were checked, of which 234 were challaned and two were impounded during the operation. Police teams have also registered five FIRs and arrested three persons during the operation. The police teams have continued its cordon and search operation (CASO) against drugs on Day 283, and conducted raids at 346 locations on Tuesday leading to the arrest of 95 drug smugglers after registration of 68 first information reports (FIRs) across the state. With this, the number of total drug smugglers arrested has reached to 39,864 within 283 days. The special DGP said that the raids have resulted in recovery of 1.5 kg heroin, 429 gram opium, 6 kg ganja, 21 kg poppy husk and Rs.2.95 lakh drug money from the possession of arrested drug smugglers. He informed that over 120 police teams, comprising over 1,000 personnel, under the supervision of 70 gazetted officers conducted raids across the state and checked around 340 suspicious persons during the day-long operation.htc...