Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 19: Principal District & Session Judge Udhampur Haq Nawaz Zargar today awarded 10 years rigorous imprisonment to two Punjab based narco smugglers namely Harjinder Singh and Semarjeet Singh under Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
The accused were nabbed at Jakhani Udhampur on Jammu- Srinagar Highway while transporting poppy straw in commercial quantity weighing 126.5 kgs in a Tata Mobile bearing Registration No. PB08EB-1537 from Srinagar to Punjab on 15.10.2018.
While awarding sentence, court observed, “both the convicts have been held guilty is heinous crime and showing any leniency to the guilty convicts will amount to doing cruelty to the innocent public/ persons including children who will likely to be affected by this menace”.
Considering the aggravating and mitigating circumstances court awarded 10 years Rigorous Imprisonment to both the accused
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