Crime branch burst major cross-border drug cartel linked to Lakhwinder Landa, Kashmir extremists

Description: New Delhi, April 19, 2025 (ANI): Speaking over cross-border Drug Smuggling, DCP Crime Branch, Apoorva Gupta said “In the last two months, ANTF Crime Branch has busted a big drug cartel syndicate. We have recovered heroin brought from Afghanistan via Pakistan, to Punjab and then to Delhi for distribution.” She said "In the last two months, ANTF Crime Branch has busted a big drug cartel syndicate. We have recovered heroin brought from Afghanistan via Pakistan, to Punjab and then to Delhi for distribution. The first two arrested were Kashmiris... We traced and arrested the woman as well. We recovered her phones for technical evidence and found a lot of incriminating material... Other associates of the woman, and seven from Punjab, were also arrested... The whole cartel, apart from Pakistan and Afghanistan connection, is linked to Lakhwinder Landa... The arrested Kashmiri man comes from a well-to-do family in Srinagar, but we were surprised to find cases of rioting and stone pelting against him... We will use the help of NCB and NIA to establish Landa's role in the entire cartel... We will bring the foreign involvement into this investigation through central agencies... Shazia's family has direct linkages to Kashmir extremists..."