India, March 17 -- The Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of the Navi Mumbai police has arrested three men from Punjab and seized high-grade heroin, an Austria-made Glock pistol, live cartridges and a trailer truck in a case investigators believe may be linked to a cross-border narcotics supply chain that uses drones to smuggle drugs into India before routing them into Maharashtra.

The accused, Baljit Singh Savinder Singh alias Monu, Gurupratap Singh Sharanjit Singh alias Gopi, and Karamjit Singh Nindar Singh, all residents of Amritsar in Punjab, were apprehended during a targeted operation in the Chakan MIDC-Nigoje village area of Pimpri-Chinchwad in Pune district last week. A court has remanded the trio to police custody till March 18.

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