Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, May 1: A notorious bovine smuggler hailing from Rajdhani village of Thanamandi in Rajouri district and booked in seven cases has been detained under Public Safety Act (PSA).
Official sources identified the bovine smuggler as Imran Ahmed, son of Shabir Ahmed, resident of village Rajdhani in Tehsil Thanamandi. The Police said that the accused has been booked under Public Safety Act for smuggling bovines in an organised manner posing a threat to peace and order.
He did not change his behaviour inspite of being booked in several FIRs and arrest by police in these cases but he continued his illegal and unlawful act of smuggling bovines and such activities are likely to disturb public order particularly in Rajouri district. The cases in which rhe accused has been booked earlier include FIR No 71/2018 of Police Station Dharamsal 155/2019 of Police Station Akhnoor 93/2020 of Police Station Nowshera, 129/2020 of Police Station Nowshera, 171/2020 of Police Station Thanamandi, 117/2021 of Police Station Nowshera.
The Police said that keeping in view the activities of the accused as his activities amounts to propagating and creating feelings of enmity, hatred among communities, the accused was ordered to be detained under section 8 of Public Safety Act and has been lodged in jail.
Senior Superintendent of Police in Rajouri, Amritpal Singh said that action against notorious criminal is being taken in the district and is among top priorities of police which aims not only to take stringent action as per law of land against notorious criminal but it is also a preventive step towards maintenance of peace and order.