Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 16: The Anti Narcotic Task Force (ANTF), a specialised wing of Jammu and Kashmir police to check rising menace of drugs, achieved another success after it foiled a bid to smuggle commercial quantity of heroin worth lakhs of rupees.
According to SP ANTF Vinay Sharma, specific information was received that an Alto car bearing registration number JK02CW-2492 driven by Laikat Ali, son of Mohd Shafi of Rangpur Sadhray RS Pura, at present Nikki Tawi Belicharana, Jammu is selling heroin among the youth in Belicharana area of Jammu and had concealed a large quantity of heroin in his car.
Acting over the information, a case FIR Number 12/2022 under section 8/21/22 NDPS Act was registered at Police Station ANTF Jammu, SP said, adding that ANTF team immediately swung into action and laid naka at near 4th Tawi Bridge Belicharana.
SP Vinay Sharma informed that the above-mentioned car was stopped by the ANTF team and during search 282.20 grams of heroin was recovered from the car, adding that the accused person has been arrested in the instant case and car has been seized.
Anti-Narcotics Task Force is investigating forward and backward links of this racket, SP stated.
He further added that ANTF Team headed by Inspector Parvez Sajjad and Inspector Varuneshwar Singh arrested another drug supplier from Kashmir who has been identified as Noor Mohd Bhat, son of Ghulam Rasool Bhat of Naipora Bungam Mir Bazar District Anantnag, Kashmir who was wanted in a case FIR Number 9/2022 under section 8/21/22/29 NDPS Act of Police Station ANTF Jammu.
“Noor Mohd Bhat is the main supplier of the narcotic drugs from Kashmir valley and had formed a notorious gang with his associates and in connivance with other accused persons, is involved in supply/transport of narcotics substances from Kashmir to Jammu region for making easy money and has spoiled the lives of many youth”, SP said, adding that more arrests are expected in near future.
Moreover, on 07.09.2022 one notorious narco-dealer namely Vishal Sharma alias Vishu, son of late Ram Parkash Sharma of Rajpura Shakti Nagar District Jammu was detained under PIT NDPS Act and lodged in Central Jail at Kot Bhalwal in District Jammu.
“A dossier was submitted by Police Station ANTF Jammu before the Divisional Commissioner Jammu who issued detention orders of this hard-core criminal under PIT NDPS”, SP Vinay Sharma said and has appealed to the general public to share information regarding such drug dealers so that appropriate legal actions are taken against them and this menace is uprooted from our society.
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