Rs 4.90 cr cash, 17 mobiles, drone seized
Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Dec 24: Police in Srinagar today said that 94 cases under the NDPS Act have been registered in several police stations across the district while 156 accused in peddling have been arrested this year.
In a handout issued here, police said that 26 notorious drug peddlers have been booked under Act and lodged in different jails of the UT after obtaining formal detention orders from the Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir.
“These drug peddlers have been involved in the peddling of narcotics among the youth of Srinagar on an alarming scale. Besides, they were also involved in several NDPS Act cases in various police stations of Srinagar,” police said.
Despite several NDPS Act cases registered against them, police said they did not mend their ways after being bailed out from courts “and were brazenly promoting drugs among the youth of the valley, especially in Srinagar, through their illegal narcotics network.”
Police said that the properties, both movable and immovable, acquired by the drug peddlers through the proceeds of illegal trafficking of drugs and narcotics have been attached by the police under the provisions of section 68 of the NDPS Act.
Among these, “Police have attached 7 vehicles and 7 residential houses which were acquired illegally by the accused persons through the narcotics trade.”
The estimated value of the properties attached, as per police, is Rs 4.47 crores; besides, 23 bank accounts belonging to these drug peddlers have been frozen in NDPS Act cases, police said.
The recoveries of drugs and narcotics made by Srinagar Police include 1.17 kg of Brown Sugar, 2.92 kg of Heroin, 13.13 kg of Charas, 10.16 kg of Ganja, 2.83 kg of Crystal Meth, 44.18 kg of Cannabis/Poppy Straw, 284 bottles of psychotropic substances, and 2823 tabs of banned drugs.
“Moreover, Rs 4,90,696 in cash, 17 mobile phones, and one drone, have also been recovered from the drug peddlers,” police said.
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