Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 19: Steering ahead the wheel of special initiative EK YUDH, NASHE KE VIRUDH Reasi Police arrested four drug peddlers and recovered 4.770 kg of Charas worth ?15,00,000 & Chitta (Heroin) worth ?50,000 in the illegal market. 04 gms Heroin from their possession.
Team of Police Station Katra during surprise raids, checking & frisking at Different places. Naka Police check Post Nomain stopped one swift car bearing registration number JK 14 C-3967 coming from Jammu towards Katra, conducted thorough checking & frisking of vehicle & persons in it and recovered 4.440 Kg of Charas like substance and 04 gms of Heroin (Chitta) from the possession of two drug peddlers traveling in the Vehicle. Peddlers are identified 1) Amjad Khan S/O Sadiq Hussain, 2) Mohd Ashraf @Shongu S/O Babu, both residents of village Chamba tehsil Katra district Reasi.
Case FIR no. 10/2022 U/S 8, 20, 21, 22, 25 NDPS Act Police Station Katra is registered and investigations initiated.
The vehicle is seized in the case, both the accused are arrested in the instant case, further investigations going on to unearth forward and backward linkages of the peddlers.
In the Mahore area, a special surprise naka was laid at Malai Nallah by the police party of Police Station Mahore. During checking of vehicles & persons crossing the naka, police party noticed suspicious movement chased and intercepted two persons
1) Sunil Kumar S/O Bansi Lal R/O Sungal Tehsil Akhnoor, 2) Sandeep Singh S/O Onkar Singh R/O Majalta Teh Majalta district Udhampur who were on the way towards Mahore. During the search, 12 Challis of charas-like substance weighing about 430 gms worth ?1,50,000 in the illegal drug market have been recovered from their possession.
In this regard, a case FIR no. 04/2022 U/S 8, 20 NDPS Act Police Station Mahore stand was registered & investigation initiated.
Reasi police has lodged four FIRs in a row with recoveries worth 49.5 lacs including ?14.35 cash of proceeds of crime in Kakriyal Katra.
Shailender Singh Senior Superintendent of Police Reasi while giving the details shared that under this drive Reasi Police achieved major success and crossed the mark of 254 arrests with the registration of 208 Case FIRs of drug abuse since ending March 2021.
Singh who is monitoring & reviewing each case every alternate day, registered under NDPS Act conveyed that police need quality investigations so as to improve conviction rates and bring the accused to justice. Good work of SDPO's is being appreciated & team members are being rewarded frequently whereas weaknesses are also pointed out. Teamwork is bringing good noticeable results.
SSP expressed that drug addiction is a disease that is spoiling our future generations to eradicate this menace from the society we need support from all the sections of society, People should come out to strengthen the Anti-Narcotics drive of Reasi Police. Efforts are also being put forth to rope in parents, families & friends of addicts in the war against Drugs abuse. |
