Jammu: Police have detained two alleged drug peddlers under the PIT-NDPS Act and Public Safety Act in Jammu and Kathua, and Kupwara districts, officials said on Sunday.
Manpreet Singh alias Sartaj, a resident of Miran Sahib area in Jammu, has been booked under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PIT-NDPS) Act after obtaining a formal detention order from the divisional commissioner, a police spokesman said.
The accused has been lodged in the Udhampur district jail, he said.
“Multiple FIRs were registered against Singh, who was found involved in promoting the drug trade. Despite his previous arrests in NDPS cases, he did not mend his ways and was found involved in supplying drugs to the local youth,” the spokesman said.
“Singh managed to secure bail in the previous cases. To prevent the subject from indulging in criminal activities, a dossier under the stringent PIT-NDPS Act was recommended against him,” he said.
In the second case, A Javed has been detained from Dadwara village in Kathua district under the Public Safety Act (PSA), the spokesman said.
A dossier was prepared against Javed and sent to the Kathua district magistrate seeking his detention under the PSA. The accused has been lodged in the Udhampur district jail, the spokesman said.
In Kupwara also police have booked a drug trafficker in PIT NDPS Act.
“Habitual drug trafficker Saqib Nazir Bhat, son of Nazir Ahmad Bhat, resident of Lolab Kupwara was booked after an order was issued by the Divisional Commissioner Kashmir,” police said, adding that the accused was taken into custody and subsequently lodged at District Jail Poonch.
Police said Bhat has a known history of involvement in drug-related activities and is a key accused in FIR No. 22/2022 under Section 8/20 of the NDPS Act, registered at Police Station Lalpora. He has been actively involved in promoting the drug menace by luring local youth into substance abuse posing a serious threat to the social fabric and public order in the area, police said.
At Geerhatchi,Kupwara, one Irshad Ahmad Sofi, son of Ghulam Mohammad Sofi, resident of Sogam, Kupwara was arrested after a heroin-like substance was recovered from his possession, police said.
