Punjab police announced on September 30 that five people had been arrested in an investigation into three suspected drug-trafficking and illegal-arms supply networks in Amritsar. In a public statement, Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav said officers had recovered 13 pistols, 3.267 kilograms of heroin and 22 live cartridges.
The DGP said separate FIRs had been registered at D-Division and Chheharta police stations. Investigators were tracing where the seized material came from and who was meant to receive it, while examining the possible involvement of other people, including handlers based abroad. These links remain police allegations under investigation.
IANS, in its September 30 report, corroborated the announced arrest and seizure totals. Akashvani’s report that morning described the five-person case as the latest action, separate from an earlier Amritsar Rural Police operation involving three arrests and a different seizure. The figures from the two investigations should not be treated as one case.
The direct police announcement did not name the five arrested people, give individual arrest times or identify specific foreign handlers. No response from the accused was available in the sources reviewed. The September 30 development is the public account of the arrests and ongoing investigation; it does not establish that the suspects have been convicted or that every alleged international connection has been proved.