Srinagar: Police in Anantnag have booked two “repeat drug peddlers” under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PIT NDPS) Act.
The detained individuals — Junaid Ahmad Mantoo of Waghama, and Mohammad Ashraf Dar, of Tulkhan, Bijbehara — are repeat offenders involved in multiple NDPS cases and continued to engage in illicit drug trafficking despite repeated legal action against them, a police spokesman said.
He said considering their persistent involvement in narcotics-related activities and the threat posed by their actions to public safety and the well-being of society, detention orders were issued under the PIT NDPS Act, and they were lodged in Kot Bhalwal Jail, Jammu.
A drug-peddler Sanjay Kumar alias “Sanju”, a resident of Phalata village in Udhampur was also detained under PIT-NDPS Act and lodged in District Jail Bhaderwah in Doda, police said.
Police also arrested two drug peddlers in Kulgam. Police said at a checkpoint at Wanpora, a car (JK01BA-6269) was intercepted and upon its search 13.8 grams of heroin-like contraband substance, a digital weighing machine and a silver foil were recovered from the possession of two persons boarding it who were subsequently arrested.
Police identified the arrested persons as Towseef Ahmad Khan and Zaheen Fayaz Bhat, both residents of Batmaloo, Srinagar.
A case under section 8/21, 29 of NDPS Act stands registered in Police Station Qazigund for further investigation.
