Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 2: Police today slapped Public Safety Act (PSA) on a “notorious” drug peddler in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district and he was sent to Kupwara jail.
A police spokesman said a notorious drug peddler Naseer Ahmad Pandith of Karimabad village of Pulwama was arrested on November 30. “On his instance, 124 bottles of Codeine Phosphate were recovered. A case under FIR number 30/2015 under Section 8/22 NDPS Act was registered against him in police station Pulwama,” he said.
“The peddler was also involved in case FIR numbers 300/2002 under Section 148, 336, 427, 337, 307 RPC, 3/4 Exp Sub Act, 134/2006 under Section 120B/RPC, 7/25 IA Act, 30 UL Act, 79/2006 under Section 307, 427, 323 RPC, 3/4 Exp S Act, 277/2014 under Section 8/22 NDPS and 39/2015 under Section 506, 451 RPC, 7/25 IA Act of police station Pulwama,” he said.
The spokesman said in order to curtail his activities with regard to drug menace the said peddler was booked under the PSA and has been lodged in District Jail Kupwara.
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