Police in Tarn Taran, Punjab, said on Monday that they arrested Shehnaz Singh, also known as the FBI’s desire for India – the original international drug lord, in their ongoing anti-drug campaign.
Punjab Police Director General Gaurav Yadav said Shawn Bhinder, who lives in Mandiala Village, Batala, Canada, was wanted by the FBI in one of the largest drug seizures in the United States on February 26, 2025. Yadav said that Bhinder was a key figure on the global scale.
FBI IAS Franco and Gurlal Singh.
Yadav said that after the FBI crackdown, Pinglind managed to slip and land secretly in India, adding that Punjab police tracked and arrested him and arrested him in Ludhiana’s jurisdiction.
The Supreme Police Officer said that in a weapons bill case registered in December 2024, Bhinder was also asked to arrest Bhinder, and Taran police arrested five members of the Jaggu Bhagwanpuria and five members of the Amritpal Batth gang, thus restoring a large amount of weapons caches and recovering ammunition from their possession.
Accompanied by Senior Police Department (SSP) Tarn Taran Taran Abhimanyu Rana, Deputy Inspector General of Ferozepur Range, Swapan Sharma, said that preliminary investigations show that Shawn Bhinder has played a key role in transporting large amounts of drug stores in the international boundaries of using trucks and trailers.
Sharma said they found during the interrogation that Bhinder has been under the guise of legal transportation operations since 2014, and Bhinder has been reportedly under the guise of legal transportation operations. poison From Colombia to the United States and Canada through Mexico. He added that the investigation also showed that Bhinder and his associates shipped about 600 kilograms of cocaine from Colombia every week.
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Lana says Bhinder’s network is believed to be Notorious drug traffickerincluding Amritpal Singh alias Baath and Gurjant Singh Bholu Havelia. He added that further investigations are underway.
Over the past four months, the Tarn Taran Police has registered 125 cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychiatric Drugs (NDPS) Act, arrested 145 people and recovered 34 kilograms of heroin, 4 kilograms of opium and Rs 22.9 lakh of drugs. During this period, up to 29 criminals have also been arrested in the NDPS Act case.
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