Srinagar: Police have booked three “most-wanted and notorious” drug smugglers under PIT NDPS Act in Baramulla and lodged them in Central Jail Kot-bhalwal Jammu, a police spokesman informed Friday.
He said Suhail Ahmad Sofi, son of Ghulam Hassan; Zahoor Ahmad Bhat, son of Ghulam Ahmad, both residents of Solinda Khaipora Tangmarg; and Waseem Ahmad Dar, son of Mohammad Sultan, resident of Watalpora Tangmarg, have been booked under PIT-NDPS Act after obtaining formal detention orders from the competent authority. The booked drug smugglers have been detained and subsequently lodged in Central Jail Kot-bhalwal Jammu.
Separately, two drug peddlers were arrested with contraband substances, the spokesman said.
He said at a checkpoint established at Kachwa Muqam Chandoosa, police intercepted and later arrested Sakib Rashid, son of Abdul Rashid of Kanispora, and Zeeshan Ali, son of Ali Mohammad Malik of Delina Baramulla, after 60 grams of cannabis-like contraband substance was recovered from their possession.
Four more drug peddlers were arrested in Kulgam district in south Kashmir, police said.
