<p>Chandigarh: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/amritsar">Amritsar</a> Commissionerate Police have busted a cross-border drug cartel with the arrest of a woman kingpin and her three operatives after recovering 5.2 kg heroin from their possession, an official said on Sunday.</p>.<p>The kingpin has been identified as Mandeep Kaur (27) from Amritsar's Ibban Kalan village, Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav said.</p>.<p>The other arrested operatives have been identified as Alam Arora (23) and Manmeet alias Golu (21), both residents of Janta Colony in Amritsar's Chheharta; and an 18-year-old youth from Tarn Taran.</p>.<p>DGP Yadav said preliminary investigations have revealed that Mandeep was in a relationship with a person, who introduced her to Pakistan-based smugglers.</p>.Self-styled Punjab pastor Bajinder Singh lands into another controversy as his video assaulting woman goes viral .<p>Mandeep's ancestral house is located in border village of Khalra in Tarn Taran, which is approximately 2 km away from the fencing of the Indo-Pak border, he said in an official statement.</p>.<p>The DGP said the probe has also uncovered evidence that Mandeep would occasionally don a police uniform to impersonate a police officer to carry out nefarious activities. Further investigations are on to establish backward and forward linkages in this case.</p>.<p>Sharing operation details, Commissioner of Police (CP) Amritsar Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said that following reliable inputs about woman drug smuggler running a drug cartel, police teams under the supervision of DCP investigation Ravinder Pal Singh Sandhu, along with police party apprehended Mandeep, Alam and Manmeet from Amritsar's Chheharta.</p>.<p>Later, on the revelations of Mandeep about the involvement of another individual, police teams also arrested the 18-year-old youth from the same area, he said.</p>.<p>Bhullar said that further investigations are ongoing and more arrests and recoveries are likely in coming days.</p>.<p>A case has been registered under various provisions of the of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act at Police Station Chheharta in Amritsar, he said. </p>
<p>Chandigarh: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/amritsar">Amritsar</a> Commissionerate Police have busted a cross-border drug cartel with the arrest of a woman kingpin and her three operatives after recovering 5.2 kg heroin from their possession, an official said on Sunday.</p>.<p>The kingpin has been identified as Mandeep Kaur (27) from Amritsar's Ibban Kalan village, Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav said.</p>.<p>The other arrested operatives have been identified as Alam Arora (23) and Manmeet alias Golu (21), both residents of Janta Colony in Amritsar's Chheharta; and an 18-year-old youth from Tarn Taran.</p>.<p>DGP Yadav said preliminary investigations have revealed that Mandeep was in a relationship with a person, who introduced her to Pakistan-based smugglers.</p>.Self-styled Punjab pastor Bajinder Singh lands into another controversy as his video assaulting woman goes viral .<p>Mandeep's ancestral house is located in border village of Khalra in Tarn Taran, which is approximately 2 km away from the fencing of the Indo-Pak border, he said in an official statement.</p>.<p>The DGP said the probe has also uncovered evidence that Mandeep would occasionally don a police uniform to impersonate a police officer to carry out nefarious activities. Further investigations are on to establish backward and forward linkages in this case.</p>.<p>Sharing operation details, Commissioner of Police (CP) Amritsar Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said that following reliable inputs about woman drug smuggler running a drug cartel, police teams under the supervision of DCP investigation Ravinder Pal Singh Sandhu, along with police party apprehended Mandeep, Alam and Manmeet from Amritsar's Chheharta.</p>.<p>Later, on the revelations of Mandeep about the involvement of another individual, police teams also arrested the 18-year-old youth from the same area, he said.</p>.<p>Bhullar said that further investigations are ongoing and more arrests and recoveries are likely in coming days.</p>.<p>A case has been registered under various provisions of the of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act at Police Station Chheharta in Amritsar, he said. </p>