In a prime crackdown on drug trafficking originating from Pakistan, police have arrested 17 human beings, inclusive of 5 policemen, withinside the Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir. Police stated the massive module changed into worried in drug smuggling from close to the Line of Control after which imparting it in extraordinary components of Kashmir. According to police, the medicine had been coming from Pakistan thru the Keran area in Kupwara district.
“We have busted a prime narcotics’ module. 17 human beings had been arrested — 5 policemen, shopkeepers, a political activist, and a contractor,” stated Yougal Kumar Manhas, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Kupwara, including that the medicine had been originating from Pakistan.
“Shakir Ali Khan, a resident of Keran who’s primarily based totally in Pakistan occupied Kashmir, changed into imparting tablets to his son Tamheed Ahmad dwelling in Keran,” the SSP added.
According to the police, they zeroed in on a few drug paddlers in Kupwara city and its adjacent areas. During the path of investigation, they determined a massive community worried in narcotic smuggling.
Police stated to date they’ve recovered kgs of heroin from the accused. “The module had obtained 5 kgs of heroine,” the SSP stated. Police stated this yr they’ve registered eighty five instances towards 161 human beings withinside the frontier district of Kashmir.
Drug trafficking has come to be a prime venture for the government. Even protection forces officers published close to the Line of Control had been accused of supporting cross-border drug trafficking.
Last yr, the National Investigation Agency arrested a Border Security Force officer published in Handwara region of Kupwara district on fees of cross-border drug smuggling related to the trrorist institution Lashkar-e-Taiba.
The NIA had even recovered ₹ ninety one lakh coins from BSF sub-inspector Romesh Kumar. The coins changed into stated to be a part of the proceeds of drug trafficking.
