Punjab police arrest 2 Hawala operators

Punjab police arrested two Hawala operators because they would be facilitating illegal financial transactions on Sunday. RS 17.60 Lakh Cash and a laptop with critical transaction records were recovered from the duo after throwing the Narco-terror Hawala rocket, the police said.

“In a decisive repression on drug networks, the Rural Police in Amritsar refers to two Hawala operators, Sukhjit Singh and Ranbir Singh, which facilitates illegal financial transactions related to drug trafficking,” the general manager of the Gaurav Yadav police posted on X Sunday. “The Punjab police systematically dismantle the drug ecosystem – aiming at traffickers, their financiers and activators. Anyone is involved in this dirty trade will face severe consequences,” DGP said.

Yadav said that the arrests came against the backdrop of a 561 -gram heroin crisis of the Local Police of Amritsar. The accused was involved in Hawala’s financing and other drug supply chains.

Offering additional details, Deputy Inspector General of the Police (DIG), the Border Satinder Singh, said that the development came from the thorough investigations and supported the tracking of the connections back and before in the accused arrest Gurursahib Singh and Jaswant Singh, near the village of Hardan Ratan, after recovering 561 grams of heroine. He said that, during the ongoing investigation, 561 grams of heroin confiscation by the Amritsar Rural Police, the accused arrested and exposed the links with two Hawala – Sukhjit Singh and Ranbir Singh – and other drug supply chains.

Preliminary investigations have revealed that the arrested duo facilitates illegal financial transactions related to drug trafficking, he added. Dig said the additional investigations are in progress to establish back and forward links in this case. More arrests and recovery are probably in the coming days.

Police’s main superintendent (SSP), Rural, Maninder Singh, said that acting on credible information, the police team successfully caught both Hawala operators in the Chheharta area of ​​Amritsar and recovered the Indian and foreign currency, along with a laptop from their possession. He said he was in progress to discover more links in this Hawala network.