Narco-terrorist ‘sneaked in’ 75-kg heroin via Attari

While intelligence agencies, including RAW, IB and NCB, are grilling notorious cross-border smuggler Ranjit Singh, alias Cheeta, it has been learnt from highly placed sources that Cheeta had confessed to have made properties worth Rs5 crore from the illegal drug trade.

The police are now trying to identify his properties and taking further steps to attaching the same.

Cheeta along with his brother Gagandeep was held from Begu village in Sirsa by the Punjab Police in a joint operation with the Haryana Police. Sleuths of the NIA were also part of the team.

According to information, Cheeta was living in Sirsa using the fake name of Gora for the past eight months. Earlier, he spent days in religious shrines by changing names when he went into hiding after the country’s biggest seizure of heroin (532 kg) at the Attar border in June last year.

The interrogation of his cousins Bikram Singh and Maninder Singh nabbed for funding Hizbul Mujahideen operative Hilal Ahmad Wagey led to his arrest.

Source: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/narco-terrorist-sneaked-in-75-kg-heroin-via-attari-83065