Srinagar: Police on Tuesday said it has arrested five suspected drug peddlers, including a woman, from different parts of the region.
In the Kupwara district of north Kashmir, a woman drug peddler was arrested at Sadhna Top in the Karnah area during a routine security check.
Identified as Alaf Noor from Khawarpara, Karnah, the arrested woman was stopped at a checkpoint and subjected to a search, following which a “substantial quantity” of contraband was recovered from her possession, a police spokesperson said.
In another operation in Kupwara, two men were detained during a police patrol in the Kariwan Park area of Dever, Lolab. The duo, identified as Syed Aijaz Ahmad Shah and Syed Ahmad Shah, both residents of Kakadpati Dever, had cannabis in their possession, the spokesman said.
In a separate operation in the south Kashmir’s Shopian district, police arrested Showkat Ahmad Thoker, a resident of Ramnagri Shopian, during a routine checking near the government higher secondary school in Hermain area. Authorities recovered 164 grams of charas-like substance from his possession.
In Pulwama’s Awantipora area, a police team, acting on a tip-off, raided a rented house in Grendash. The property, occupied by Mukhtar Ahmed Boked from Jammu, was searched, and six bags containing approximately 95 kilograms of narcotic substance (Fukki) were recovered. During the raid, one Parvez Ahmed Boked was arrested, while the primary suspect, Mukhtar Ahmed Boked, remains absconding. Efforts are underway to apprehend him.
Police have registered cases under relevant sections of the law at respective police stations, and investigations are ongoing.
