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Punjab: Punjab police on Monday claimed to have carried out an encounter at Bagiadhi village in Tarn Taran and arrested four among which two accused sustained bullet injuries.
Speaking with the media Tarn Taran SSP Abhimanyu Rana said, “The CIA team in Tarn Taran had received information that two smugglers living in the border area, Gurjant and Vijay, have been successful in getting the consignment through drones. Today, we received information that they are going to make a deal with Jashan and Sagar in the Chabhal police station area. When the CIA team raided, they started running and fired at the police. Vijay and Sagar were injured in the retaliatory firing, and have been admitted to the hospital. Three sophisticated pistols imported from Pakistan through drones, 7 kg of opium have been recovered.”
He further said that police recovered several live cartridges, and Rs 1 lakh cash which the police has recovered from the spot.
“Further investigation is going on. On the direction of CM Bhagwant Mann in the ongoing war against drugs, action is being taken against the drug smugglers and strict action will be taken against them,” he added.
Earlier a person accused in the grenade attack in Amritsar’s Thakurdwara Temple was killed in an encounter, said police officials on Monday.The deceased has been identified as Gursidak, son of Jagjit Singh and a resident of Bal village of Amritsar while the second accused Vishal, son of Raju and a resident of Rajasansi, Amritsar, has been absconding from the spot.
