Chandigarh, Aug. 10 -- Continuing the war against drugs "Yudh Nashian Virudh" waged by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann to eradicate drug menace from state consecutively for the 162nd day, Punjab Police conducted raids at 391 locations on Monday leading to the arrest of 68 drug smugglers after registration of 50 first information reports (FIRs) across the state. With this, the number of total drug smugglers arrested has reached 25,343 in 162 days, a release said on Sunday.

As per the release, the raids have resulted in the recovery of 1.4 kg of heroin and 1594 intoxicant tablets/capsules from the possession of arrested drug smugglers.

The operation was conducted on the directions of the Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab, Gaurav ...