Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, Dec 16: The Police along with BSF and Army foiled a narcotics smuggling bid in Mendhar area of Poonch and arrested two girls and recovered 890 grams of heroin like substance from their possession.
On a specific information teams of Police and BSF along with Executive Magistrate apprehended one girl namely Nazia (name changed), daughter Mohd Khurshid, a resident of Deri Dabsi village across the fence, in Mendhar at Jaba post and recovered 400 grams of drugs from her possession last evening.
In this regard FIR No 292/2022 u/s 8/21/22 NDPS Act was registered at Police Station Mendhar and investigation taken up. During sustained questioning of the girl she confessed that she has hidden one more packet in her house and her sister namely Ruksana (name changed ) was also in close touch with one of the handler in PoK who supplied the drugs to them for further sale.
After getting this lead Police with tactical assistance from Indian Army apprehended another girl and recovered 490 grams of the heroin from their house in presence of Executive Magistrate.
Police team headed by PSI Gulshan Partap Singh and PSI Rajat Sharma, SHO Mendhar Nayaz Ahmed and SDPO Mendhar Sheezan Bhat executed the recoveries under the supervision of SSP Poonch Rohit Baskotra in close coordination with BSF (G) Branch and Indian Army. Further investigation is going on and more arrests cannot be ruled out, SSP Poonch said.
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