Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 15: Gangyal police under ‘Operation Sanjeevani’ arrested a notorious drug peddler along with heroin.
As per police sources, on specific information, a team from Gangyal Police Station laid a naka at Model Town and asked a pedestrian to stop for checking as he was trying to hide himself from the cops.
During checking, police recovered 10 grams of heroin from the possession of the pedestrian and arrested him.
The arrested person has been identified as Robin Singh, son of Sunmukh Singh, a resident of Sector-1 Model Town Gangyal.
During questioning, the accused disclosed that he had brought the consignment from Punjab for selling among the youth in and around Jammu city. The arrested person was a notorious drug peddler and with his arrest, police achieved a major success to save the youth from becoming drug addicts.
A case under FIR Number 85/17 under Section 8/21/22 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act has been registered at Police Station Gangyal and investigation started.
Police team led by SHO Gangyal SI Nayat Ali made the arrest under the supervision of SDPO South Mohammed Rafiq Manhas and SP South Sandeep Choudhary.