Amritsar, Sep 1 - The Punjab Police arrested five people here Monday and recovered four kilograms of heroin from their possession, officials said.

According to a senior official of Punjab Police, the seized contraband is worth Rs.200 million (Rs.20 crore) in the international market.

'We had got a tip-off from our source that some smugglers were going in a Alto car to deliver the drugs to some peddler. We laid a trap and arrested five of them while one of them managed to escape,' the official said.