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| 24 poppy bags go missing from Poonch custom office, police begins probe | | Murk over cross-LOC trade! | | poonch, Sept 13: Twenty four bags of banned poppy seed allegedly recovered by custom officials at Rangar Trade Centre in the year 2008 have gone missing.
Interestingly, the 24 bags have gone missing from the locked and secured room of the custom department. Police has begun probing 'alleged theft' of the poppy seed bags from the safe house of custom officials at Ranger Trade Center. Sources said that police is probing the reports of the alleged sale of 24 bags of banned poppy seed.
They added that police has reliable inputs of poppy seed having been sold to a trader in Poonch. They asserted that trader of Pakistan occupied Kashmiri (POK) had sent poppy seeds to the owner of a Cloth house of Poonch. However, custom preferred not to take any action against the accused after making the recovery.
Police sources said that they are probing involvement of custom officials in the missing of Poppy Seed bags. It is pertinent to mention here that Poppy Seed is banned item and it is also not in the item list finalized in the agreement signed between India and Pakistan in 2008. Sources said that a PoK based trader had sent more than 100 bags of Poppy Seeds to a Jammu based trader.
However the seed was received by a Cloth House of Poonch. Although Custom department had recovered banned item, sources said that no action has been taken against the trader and its agent of Poonch due to reason better known to the Custom Officials.
Sources said that after the bags went missing, Police started an in-depth enquiry and they are questioning lot of people in this regard. Police is trying to identify officials who were hand-in-glove with criminals and smugglers.
A senior police officer on the condition of anonymity said that nobody from outside can steal even a small thing from the Trade Centre and this is a matter of 24 bags. He said that there is obviously an internal hand involved in it which is being ascertained. Police also hinted that there may be few arrests within two days regarding the same. |
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