Chandigarh, July 11 -- A Punjab-origin man has been sentenced to 20 years in a US federal prison for leading a drug trafficking organisation that smuggled hundreds of kilograms of methamphetamine and cocaine from the United States into Canada, federal prosecutors said.

Guramrit Sidhu, 63, of Brampton, Ontario, was sentenced on Thursday by US district judge John A. Kronstadt after pleading guilty in March to engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, according to a release issued by the US Attorney's Office for the central district of California.

Court documents said Sidhu led the trafficking network between September 2020 and February 2023. During a roughly one-month period between September 13 and October 24, 2022, he orchestrated e...