Four held with 36 kg of opium in Kurukshetra

Kurukshetra police’s CIA-2 unit arrested four men and recovered 36,140 kg of opium from two trucks, Superintendent of Police (SP) Varun Singla said on Monday.

The accused have been identified as Punjab Singh, Gurwinder Singh, Sewa Singh and Jeet Basu, all residents of Faridkot district of Punjab.

SP Singla said a team led by Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Pehow Paramjeet Singh and Inspector Mohan Lal in-charge of CIA-2 arrested the men near Usmanpur village on NH-152D along with drugs.

“I was working on a secret tip that the men in question were involved in drug dealing and were hiding opium in two trucks and were traveling from Jharkhand and Punjab through Usmanpur village in Haryana. A case has also been registered against the accused under the NDPS Act at Pehowa Sadar Police Station,” he added.