Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, Dec 15: Security agencies have busted a Pakistan ISI-run narcotics trafficking racket with the arrest of a school-going girl living along the Line of Control (LoC) in Mendhar area.
The girl, a student of 10th class , lives at village Deri Dabsi ahead of the LoC fence in the Mendhar sector of the Poonch and has been apprehended with 400 grams of “heroin” in a joint operation conducted by the Border Security Force (BSF) and the J&K Police today.
The agencies have been informed about another cache of drugs that she had allegedly hid in a ditch near her house even as her questioning is going on, the sources said.
The security agencies have also identified a Pakistani “handler”, who reportedly used to visit the girl’s house to hand over the narcotics to her for further supply to school-going students and youngsters living in the adjoining villages near the LoC.
A number of Indian habitations are located ahead of the India-Pakistan LoC fence, also known as the anti-infiltration obstacle system, in J&K and intelligence agencies have reported that Pakistanis living on the other side “frequently” visit the houses here to push drugs and weapons and to gather inputs about Indian security forces deployed to guard the front, prone to infiltration of terrorists.
Meanwhile, police arrested another drug peddler Sandeep Kumar hailing from Kamsar area of Poonch today and recovered 15 gms of charas from his possession at Chatru. A case was registered against him.
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