Excelsior Correspondent
DODA, Jan 15: Police today busted a narcotic smuggling gang with the arrest of journalist working with a national channel and local English daily newspaper.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Doda Mohammad Sharief Chouhan said that, on specific inputs, police party from Doda police station laid a naka on Paryote Road and intercepted Alto car bearing registration number JK02R-6668.
During checking, police recovered 130 bottles of intoxicants and arrested four drug peddlers.
The narco smugglers have been identified as Fayaz Ahmed Pampori, son of Ghulam Rasool Pampori, Zia-ul-Haq, son of Mohammad Khalil Batt, Sohail Ahmed Tak, son of Ghulam Hassan Tak and Abdul Hakim alias Raju Banday, son of Abdul Latief Banday of Doda, he added.
SSP further informed that Fayaz Ahmed Pampori is a journalist working with national channel and local English daily newspaper.
A case under FIR number 12/14 under Section 8/21/22/25/29 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act has been registered at police station Doda and investigation started.
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