Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 9: Senior Superintendent of Police, GRP Railways Jammu Rajinder Kumar Gupta today said that there has been a tangible improvement on different fronts at the Railway Station.
According to Gupta, during a special drive against drug peddlers, a number of consignments containing considerable quantity of intoxicants and narcotics were recovered from the accused persons.
Around 28 kilograms of Ganja was recovered in three different FIRs during the year 2016, which was 10 times more than the Ganja recovered in last five years, the SSP said, adding during the year 2016, the GRP had recovered 32 times more stolen property than its preceding years and total recovery in the preceding year was more than the sum of recoveries in last four years.
He disclosed that the kingpin of Jehar-Khuraani was arrested and its racket was busted only due to vigorous contribution of GRP, vis-à-vis there has been no such incidence of Jehar-Khuraani since July 2016, which otherwise was order of the day.
“GRP is in the process of obtaining PSA for such hard core criminals to prevent loss of human life”, the SSP said, adding the number of run-over incidents by trains/deaths on the tracks have decreased substantially to 53 as compared to 58 in 2015 and 66 in 2014. Moreover, the dedicated GRP staff ensured proper closure of the running trains’ doors to prevent loss of human life
Quoting the functioning of CCTNS lab at Police Station GRP, Jammu, he said that since March 2016, the Istgashas are being produced primarily through CCTNS system. Moreover, GRP Jammu has to its credit being the first unit which produced Istighasas of non cognizable offences in CCTNS system
“Above all, a cash of more than Rs 11 lakh primarily of old denominations was recovered at Jammu Railway Station”, he said.