Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 28: Anti Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) Jammu today arrested one interstate drug peddler and recovered a huge quantity of Hashish (Charas) from his possession.
“On a specific information that one person namely Ramesh son of Pappa Ram, resident of Gangawas Corna (Rajasthan), who is a habitual Narco smuggler is transporting a consignment of narcotics and is on the way from Kashmir to outside UT via NH44 in some unknown vehicle, a team of ANTF laid random check points at different places along the NH44 across three districts,” a spokesman of ANTF said.
He said after hectic efforts one car was traced at RTO Try Ground, Narwal (Jammu) and on checking, a large quantity of Hashish was recovered from the car which was later found to be 8.18 kg in weight. The spokesman said that a case under FIR Number 01/2023 u/s 8/20 NDPS Act was registered in this connection at Police Station ANTF Jammu and further investigation started.
“The accused person was arrested on the spot and the car used in the commission of crime was seized,” he said, adding, preliminary investigation reveals that the arrested drug peddler was continuously in touch with other kingpins of the nexus and they were going to sell the same contraband among the youth and other drug peddlers at Rajasthan.
The whole operation was conducted under the guidance of Deputy SP ANTF Jammu Shamsher Singh and supervision of SSP ANTF Vinay Sharma.
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