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| Cross LoC Trade: FSL confirms seized consignment is 'Brown Sugar' | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 22 : Confirming that the narcotics consignment seized by police from a truck coming from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) to Uri during cross LoC trade on January 17, is 'brown sugar', Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) today sent its detailed analytical report to police for further action. Director Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) Kashmir, Inayat-ullah Khan stated that they received the total number 12 samples for testing and after thorough analytical examination of the material and due to chemical analysis it was found that all the packets contain narcotic substance-'brown sugar'. He also stated that the FSL expert team comprising Hamid Shiekh and Shakeel Ahmad Wani after the investigation of the seized material found brown sugar in it.
"We have sent the detailed report to police for further action," Director FSL told KNS. The inspector General of Police (IGP) told KNS that the report from FSL has been received by the department. Pertinently, narcotic consignment worth over Rs 100 Crores was seized by police from a truck coming from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) to Uri during cross LoC trade on January 17. Police had found 114 packets of brown sugar weighing almost a kilogram each, from one of the trucks bearing regd no RIS-2137 of Al- Fajar Company which crossed the LoC as a part of Cross LoC Trade convoy from PoK. Due to the incident the Cross LoC trade has also been suspended besides this Srinagar- Muzafarabad bus service too was suspended following the incident. Meanwhile most of the civil society members and political parties are asking the authorities not to make the incident as impediment into the trade that earlier was started as Confidence Building Measures (CBMs). |
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