Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 8: In a major success, the police today arrested a drug- peddler and recovered consignment of 670 grams of heroine from his possession.
Senior Superintendent of Police Rajouri, Chandan Kohli while addressing press conference in his office, termed it as a major success for Rajouri police.
SSP said that a police team headed by SHO Rajouri, Sameer Jillani and SI Danish IC PP Rajouri City under the supervision of Zaheer Abbas, DysP DAR, was patrolling in Panjal Gala area near Nambla Palullian village of Rajouri and intercepted a person identified as Basharat Hussain, son of Mohammad Akram, resident of Ninga Nar near Thandi Kassi.
Although the said person tried to escape from the spot spotting the movement of police but alert cops detained him and during searches, a consignment of heroine, weighing 670 grams was recovered from his possession.
SSP Rajouri said that accused has been arrested and a case FIR No. 467/2020 under section 8/21 NDPS Act has been registered in Police Station Rajouri in this connection.
“This is a major success and peddler was trying to smuggle the consignment but police team managed to foil the peddling bid,” SSP Rajouri said adding that an investigation is going on into the matter to unearth all forward and backward links of this drug-peddler and more arrests are expected soon.
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