Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 17: Police today said they arrested a police constable and a Sarpanch in South Kashmir’s Kakapora town for running a drug racket in the area.
Station House Officer, Kakapora, Manzoor Ahmad said a police official caught a man, Feroz Ahmed Dar, at the entry of the Police Post with banned codeine syrups wrapped in a newspaper.
The arrested person later confessed that a police constable, Mohammad Syed of Anantnag district, handed over the syrups to him for the National Conference Sarpanch of the area, Fayaz Ahmed Dar at Ward 19-A, Kakapora.
Ahmad said initial investigations have revealed that Syed would supply the same drugs in lieu of cash to Sarpanch, which police had seized in 2012 from drug peddlers.
“We have seized at least 1250 codeine syrups in 2012 from drug peddlers and had registered a case vide FIR number 10/2014 in this case,” the SHO said.
He said that the Sarpanch was called to police station for questioning where he admitted that the man was sent by him to collect the banned drugs. He was later arrested and put behind the bars.
“So far we have four persons including the police constable, Sarpanch, and his aided Sajad Ahmed Dar and Feroz Ahmed Dar, all residents of Kakapora,” he said.
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