{"id":65219,"date":"2026-07-16T13:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/?p=65219"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:07:11","slug":"day-176-of-gangstran-te-vaar-punjab-police-conducts-636-raids-440-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/day-176-of-gangstran-te-vaar-punjab-police-conducts-636-raids-440-held\/","title":{"rendered":"*DAY 176 OF GANGSTRAN TE VAAR: PUNJAB POLICE CONDUCTS 636 RAIDS; 440 HELD*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POLICE TEAMS ALSO TAKE PREVENTIVE ACTION AGAINST 422 INDIVIDUALS*<br \/>\nPEOPLE CAN ANONYMOUSLY REPORT GANGSTER-RELATED INFORMATION VIA ANTI-GANGSTER HELPLINE NUMBER 93946-93946*<br \/>\n44 DRUG SMUGGLERS HELD ON DAY 501 OF YUDH NASHIAN VIRUDH*<br \/>\nCHANDIGARH, July 15:(Press ke takat)<\/p>\n<p>As the decisive \u2018Gangstran Te Vaar\u2019 campaign enters its 176th day, Punjab Police on today conducted 636 raids at identified and mapped locations linked to associates of gangsters across the state.<br \/>\nAs per the information, the \u201cGangstran Te Vaar\u201d\u2014 a decisive war to make Punjab a gangster-free state was launched by the Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav on January 20, 2026. Police teams from all the districts in coordination with Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) Punjab have been conducting special operations across the state.<br \/>\nOn Day 176, Police teams arrested 440 individuals held with six weapons, taking the total arrests to 49,270 since the launch of the campaign.<br \/>\nApart from this, preventive action has been taken against 422 persons. Police teams have also arrested 20 Proclaimed Offenders (POs) during the operation.<br \/>\n People can anonymously report information related to wanted criminals and gangsters, and also share tips on crime and criminal activity, through the Anti Gangster Helpline number 93946-93946.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Police teams have continued its drive against drugs \u201cYudh Nashian Virudh\u201d for 501st day with 44 drug smugglers arrested on Wednesday and recovered 805 grams heroin, 561 intoxicant tablets\/capsules and Rs 21,700 drug money from their possession. With this, the number of total drug smugglers arrested has reached to 73,645 in just 501 days. As part of De-addiction, the Punjab Police has convinced 23 persons to undergo de-addiction and rehabilitation treatment today.<\/p>\n<p>#PunjabPolice #CrackdownOnGangsters #AntiGangsterDrive #PunjabPoliceRaid #LawAndOrder #PunjabNews #CrimeCrackdown #PoliceAction #GangsterFreePunjab #SecurityForce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POLICE TEAMS ALSO TAKE PREVENTIVE ACTION AGAINST 422 INDIVIDUALS* PEOPLE CAN ANONYMOUSLY REPORT GANGSTER-RELATED INFORMATION VIA ANTI-GANGSTER HELPLINE NUMBER 93946-93946* 44 DRUG SMUGGLERS HELD ON DAY 501 OF YUDH NASHIAN VIRUDH* CHANDIGARH, July 15:(Press ke takat) As the decisive \u2018Gangstran Te Vaar\u2019 campaign enters its 176th day, Punjab Police on today conducted 636 raids at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9852,10243,14176,13977,25,20,16185,1,40921,3],"tags":[41169,41158,6551,21819,41165,41161,41167,41163,41160,41166,41162,41172,41168,41171,2134,3950,41159,41170,41164,41173],"class_list":["post-65219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-chandigarh","category-cover-story","category-crime","category-english-news","category-india","category-national","category-punjab","category-viral","category-world","tag-440-gangsters-arrested","tag-anti-gangster-drive","tag-anti-social-elements","tag-crackdown-on-gangsters","tag-crime-control-india","tag-crime-crackdown","tag-criminal-arrests-punjab","tag-gangster-free-punjab","tag-law-and-order-punjab","tag-mega-police-raid","tag-police-action-punjab","tag-police-operations","tag-police-raid-636-locations","tag-public-safety-punjab","tag-punjab-crime-news","tag-punjab-police","tag-punjab-police-raid","tag-punjab-police-success","tag-punjab-security-forces","tag-war-on-gangsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65220,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65219\/revisions\/65220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}