Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 12: Police intensified its anti-drug campaign across multiple districts of Kashmir under the ongoing “Nasha Mukt Abhiyan,” attaching properties allegedly acquired through drug proceeds, demolishing illegal structures, and destroying narcotics cultivation and conducting awareness programmes in schools and villages today.
A police spokesperson said properties linked to drug trafficking were attached in Shopian, Srinagar and Handwara.
In Srinagar, police attached a double-storeyed residential house along with land worth nearly Rs.1.2 crore at Gasoo Hazratbal in connection with NDPS cases registered at Police Stations Nigeen and Ganderbal.
In Shopian, the spokesperson said a 14-marla property worth more than Rs 10 lakh belonging to an accused in an NDPS case was attached after it was identified as having been acquired through proceeds of narcotics trade.
Police in Handwara also attached a residential property allegedly renovated using money generated through drug trafficking, the spokesperson said.
As part of the crackdown on illegal infrastructure linked to narcotics networks, the spokesperson said, police and civil authorities demolished structures allegedly raised on encroached state land by accused drug peddlers in Baramulla and Kulgam districts. In Handwara, police and the district administration retrieved five kanals of government land allegedly encroached upon by an accused involved in an NDPS case.
They also destroyed illegally cultivated poppy crops during separate operations in Baramulla, Anantnag and Handwara districts. Cases under relevant sections of the NDPS Act were registered and investigations taken up, the spokesperson said.
“In another operation, police destroyed wild bhang plants along the Chichlora-Goigam-Pinjoora roadside area in Baramulla in coordination with local village committees, Numberdars and Chowkidars,” he said.
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