Srinagar: Police on Saturday said they have attached properties valued at Rs 3.5 crores belonging to narcotics smugglers here.
The action follows the police’s intensified crackdown against Drug trafficking and under the aegis of the ongoing Nasha Mukt Jammu & Kashmir Abhiyaan, a police spokesperson said.
Sangam police station attached two immovable properties linked to the two accused — Shakeel Ahmad Ganie and Farooq Ahmad Mir, both residents of Noorbagh’s Kreshbal area — under Section 68F of the NDPS Act, the spokesperson said.
The police attached a double-storey residential house along with one kanal of land belonging to Ganie, valued at over Rs 2 crore, he said.
Another double-storey residential house along with one kanal of land belonging to Mir, valued at approximately Rs 1.5 crore, was also attached, he added.
The attached properties have been identified as illegally acquired assets generated through proceeds of drug trafficking, he added.
