Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, May 29: In a major success, police recovered 1.2 Kg charas from a Tempo Traveller in Nowshera area and arrested it’s driver for smuggling the banned substance.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Rajouri, Yougal Manhas said that a team of police headed by SHO Nowshera, Mohd Amin Malik laid a naka on Jammu- Rajouri highway and started random frisking of vehicles.
During checking, a Tempo Traveller was seen approaching the naka but driver parked the vehicle at some distance and tried to dodge the cops on duty by moving here and there. Taking note of suspicious behaviour of the driver, who was driving vehicle without passengers, the cops rushed towards the vehicle and encircled it. During physical check of the vehicle, a major cache of narcotics was recovered from back seat of vehicle which was seized on the spot.
Vehicle with registration number, JK14A-7375 was seized while driver identified as Rajesh Bali, son of Ramesh Bali, resident of Sunderbani was arrested on the spot.
59 rolls of Charas weighing one kilogram and two hundred grams (1200 grams) was recovered from the spot, SSP said.
A case FIR No. 91/2019 under Sections 8/15 NDPS Act has been registered in Police Station Nowshera in this connection. Further investigation was in progress. The Tempo was coming from Mughal Road side and was on way to Jammu, the preliminary investigation revealed.
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