Srinagar: Multiple properties worth Rs 1.72 crore belonging to an alleged drug peddler from north Kashmir’s Baramulla district were attached on Saturday, police said.
The properties belonged to “notorious” drug peddler Rafiq Ahmad Khan alias Rafi Rafa, a resident of Baramulla’s Trikanjan Boniyar, a police spokesperson said.
He said the seized properties include double-storey residential houses at the Chowadhi area of Jammu, and the Trikanjan area of Boniyar in Baramulla, and three vehicles.
The properties were identified as illegally acquired properties during the course of an investigation conducted by police, the spokesperson said.
He said the properties were acquired from the illicit trafficking of narcotics and psychotropic substances by the drug peddler.
The action was taken under sections 68-E read with 68-F (1) of the NDPS Act of 1985 & is linked with case FIR No. 134/2016 u/s 8/21, 29 NDPS Act of Police Station Gangyal Jammu.
