Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 22: Police today sent the narcotics recovered from a Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) truck near the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri for Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) for testing while 42 trucks and their drivers who were stranded on either side of the LoC crossed to their respective destinations.
Inspector General of Police North Kashmir range, Nitish Kumar, said that the pockets of narcotic drugs which were seized from the cross LoC trade truck on Friday were sent to the forensic test today.
Kumar said that after receiving inputs Baramulla police and officials of custom department recovered 66.5 kilogram narcotic drugs from a cross LoC trade truck and its driver was arrested. He said the investigation is going on in which police is trying to arrest the other people who are involved in this crime.
The police officer said “there are so many people who are trying to involve the youths in this hell but we assure that we will arrest these all and we will take strict action against the involved people.”
In the meantime, 13 trucks along with their drivers that were held up at the Salamabad crossed the LoC towards Muzaffarabad early today. The 29 trucks that had gone from Uri to Chakoti along with goods and here held up in PoK also crossed towards Salamabad. The standoff continued till late night end early today.
However, the truck driver Syed Yousuf son of Ali Akbar who is in Uri Police custody is being questioned and his truck bearing registration number XA-267 has been seized.
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