Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 4: Police arrested a heroin smuggler from Kunjwani area, falling under the jurisdiction of Gangyal police station.
As per police sources, on specific information, a team from Gangyal police station laid a naka at Kunjwani and asked a pedestrian to stop for checking, as he was moving in the area under suspicious circumstances.
On seeing police cops, he ran away, but was chased and nabbed near some distance from the naka point.
During checking, police recovered 2 grams heroin worth over Rs 10,000 from the possession of the person and arrested him.
The accused has been identified as Ranvijay Singh alias Manu, son of Balraj Singh, a resident of Ward Number 3, Bishnah.
He came to Kunjwani to deliver the heroin to his associates, but before he could succeed in his nefarious designs, police arrested him.
The accused after brining the heroin from adjoining States used to supply it among the youths in Gangyal and its surrounding area to make them drug addicts.
With the arrest of the heroin supplier, police achieved a major success to bring down the rising graph of narcotics supply in the Gangyal and its nearby areas.
A case under FIR Number 2/16 under Section 8/21 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act has been registered against the accused at police station Gangyal and investigation of the case is going on.
Police team led by SHO Gangyal police station Inspector Aejaz Wani made the arrest under the supervision of SDPO South Sachin Gupta, SP South Shaazad Salaria and SSP Jammu Uttam Chand.
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