Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, June 30: The lady kingpin of a drug racket, which was operative from a house at village Dhani Dhar was arrested today. However, some of the members of the drug racket including women are still at large and manhunt has been intensified to arrest them.
As per police sources, on inputs, police team from Rajouri police station led by SHO Yash Jamwal arrested the lady kingpin of a drug racket namely Shamshada Begum, wife of Naseer Ahmad from village Dhani Dhar.
The arrested woman was among the group of persons, who attacked police team yesterday when the latter was conducting raid in the house of the kingpin on some reliable inputs that some undesirable activities were going in the house, they added.
During raid, four drug peddlers namely Ajay Kumar, son of Chander Parkash of Dhangri, husband of kingpin Naseer Ahmed, son of Lal Hussain of Challas, at present Dhani Dhar, Azeem Ahmed, son of Gulzar Hussain of Gujjar Mandi and Rajan Gupta, son of Raj Kumar Gupta, a resident of Kalakote were arrested, while the lady kingpin along with her women associates and three more drug peddlers managed to escape.
Sources added that that the arrested lady kingpin operates a drug racket from her house at village Dhani Dhar, adding two more ladies and three drug peddlers are also involved in the racket and will be behind the bars soon.
A case under FIR number 331/14 under Section 353, 332, 336, 506, 147 and 148 RPC stands registered against the accused at police station Rajouri and manhunt has been launched to nab the absconding drug peddlers.
As reported, four drug peddlers were arrested for attacking a police party yesterday at village Dhani Dhar. In the incident, a police cop namely Mohammad Vakil also received injuries in his finger.
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