Srinagar: Police in Kulgam have attached property belonging to a “notorious” drug peddler, Shahzad Ahmad Dar, son of Late Mohammad Rajab Dar of Vedow Mishipora, under the provisions of Section 68-F of the NDPS Act, 1985.
The accused is involved in case FIR No. 62/2021 U/S 8/15-29 NDPS Act of Police Station Qaimoh, in which poppy straw weighing about 520 kilograms was recovered from a load carrier. Subsequently, the accused was detained under PIT NDPS Act and is presently lodged at Kot Bhalwal Jail, Jammu.
During the course of investigation, police established that the accused had acquired illegally earned assets having a market value of approximately ₹36 lakh from the proceeds of drug trafficking. The said property, a single-storey residential house at Vedow Mishipora, was attached by police in the presence of “respectable” citizens and the Executive Magistrate, a police spokesperson informed.
