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Tendiwala (Ferozepur): Tendiwala in Ferozepur district is a remote village located a few metres from the Pakistan border..
After the village community got together 10 months ago and approached the police, they suspended work for a few weeks only to get back to business on getting bail, he says.. Residents in the border districts of Fazilka and Ferozepur say drones from across the border drop heroin in villages and easy money followed by addiction lures youngsters to becoming couriers...
Referring to security agencies recovering 27kg of heroin, a pistol and ammunition dropped by a Pakistani drone on December 3, Angrej Singh of Fazilkas Churi Wala Chisti village says, When a drone drops a consignment involving a huge amount of money, it indicates someone from our village is part of the cross-border smuggling..
Ferozepur range deputy inspector general of police (DIG) Ranjit Singh Dhillon says the police acted on tip-offs and cracked down on paandi or couriers in Fazilka, Ferozepur and Tarn Taran districts and recovered over 100 kg of heroin over the past year...
The police need support from villagers to identify drug couriers and suppliers, he says.. Admitting to the role of certain policemen being hand in glove with the smugglers, Dhillon says personnel on duty near the border areas for long have been transferred...
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