SIA arrests proclaimed offender in narco-terror

Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, May 28 The State Investigating Agency Kashmir today claimed to have achieved a major success in apprehending a proclaimed offender who was at large for the last 2 years.
The SIA said that the proclaimed offender Abdul Rashid Mir of Amargarh, Sopore who was at large for the last 2 years. The accused is a part of a cross border narco-terror module operating in the Valley. Narcotics and small arms were smuggled across the border by terror operatives of LeT into Sopore town and thereafter peddled throughout the Valley among the youth.
During the course of investigation of this case (FIR 19/2022), 8 members of the narco-terror module have been arrested by SIA, Kashmir so far.
The arrest of Abdul Rashid Mir is a major jolt to the nacro-terror operatives across the border who push the youth to drugs besides using the proceeds to fuel terrorism in the UT.