Srinagar: Police have booked a “notorious” drug smuggler under PIT NDPS Act in Sopore after obtaining formal detention orders from competent authority, a police spokesperson informed Friday.
He said the “notorious drug smuggler” Showkat Ahmed Sofi, son of Abdul Sattar, resident of Dangerpora, has been booked under PIT-NDPS Act after obtaining formal detention orders from the competent authority. The booked drug smuggler has been detained and subsequently lodged in Central Jail Kot-Bhalwal Jammu.
Police said that many cases are registered against the said drug smuggler and that he was involved in promoting drug abuse and trade by supplying drugs to local youth of the Police District Sopore and other areas of the district.