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| J&K emerges as safe route for narco-smugglers as agencies seize 30 kg heroin, 10,000 kg poppy straw | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Jan 23: With the seizure of over 30 kg heroin, two quintals of charas and 10,000 kg poppy straw, besides marijuana and cocaine, from different J&K areas during the past some time, J&K seems to be emerging as a safe route and transit point for narco-smugglers.
The contrabands are smuggled into the state from across the borders, according to a senior police officer.
That the smuggling activities were flourishing in the state came in focus about two years back when senior J&K cadre IPS officer Saji Mohan was apprehended in Mumbai on the alleged drug smuggling charges.
The officer said the links of well-oiled drug peddling racket in the state had been established with people in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where heroin originated.
Even Mohan was alleged to have named some people in the state, who were associated with him, he added.
He said the packets of heroin which Mohan possessed and those recovered from drug smugglers here were similar in quality and bore same markings.
Based on the interrogation of the arrested smugglers, agencies came to know that the seized consignments were meant for lucrative markets in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore, he added.
The officer said smugglers had also been using fruit season in Kashmir for clandestinely transporting drugs from the valley to outside the state in fruit-laden trucks.
During the past some time, over two quintals of charas and 10,000 kilograms of poppy straw were recovered from the trucks which were on their way from Kashmir to Punjab, Delhi and other states, he said.
The consignments were found hidden underneath apple boxes and battens in trucks, he added.
"Smugglers get active every year during fruit season when it is easy to carry contrabands by hiding them under fruit boxes," he said.
3,000 kg poppy straw was seized from a truck at Nagrota in April last year while it was on its way from Srinagar to Punjab.
Over 148 kg charas and 2,100 kg poppy straw worth crores were seized by the sleuths of excise department at Lakhanpur toll post from two trucks on March 3 last year. The consignments were concealed beneath apple boxes.
On March 2, over 1,000 kilograms of poppy straw was seized by police from three trucks on the national highway, while 1,100 kg poppy straw was seized from a truck parked by the roadside at Hatli Morh in Kathua in March.
In other incidents, about 50 kg charas and 2,000 kg poppy straw were seized from different areas, including the general bus stand here.
More than 15 kilograms of heroin worth Rs 75 cr was seized from two persons in the border fields of Khour on February 21 last year.
While both of them were arrested by police, a Pak national, who had given them the consignment, had fled across the border. The seized heroin packets bore markings of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
A large quantity of heroin and charas was seized by police from Kashmiri youth Abdul Rehman alias Haji Ali Mohammad Hakim in Mumbai. He was alleged to have carried the consignment from Kashmir to Mumbai in a luxury car.
Sources said border troops and cops had now been instructed to do the additional job of keeping an eye on smugglers too, while checking infiltration. |
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