Srinagar:Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday booked a drug peddler under Public Safety Act (PSA) and claimed to have arrested two more notorious drug peddlers in Kupwara and recovered narcotics from their possession, officials said.
Hilal Rashid Khan, son of Abdul Rashid Khan of MaidanporaLolab in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district was detained under PSA by Jammu and Kashmir Police after obtaining his detention warrants from the competent authority.
“He was found involved in peddling of narcotics and also some criminal cases in the jurisdiction of Police Station LalporaKupwara where has created an atmosphere of terror and fear among general public of the area”, police said.
Meanwhile, Police said on specific information a team from police from Drugmulla established a naka at Bumhama near Food Corporation of India (FCI) along with Executive Magistrate and during checking one person identified as AshiqAhmad Rather son of Habibullah Rather a resident of Kandi in frontier Kashmir’s Kupwara district was apprehended.
Charas-like substance weighing approximately 200 grams was recovered from his possession in the presence of Executive Magistrate, police said. Ashiq was arrested and further questioning is being carried to unearth the whole nexus.
In a similar case a team of Police Station Kupwara apprehended one Waseem Ahmed Kaboo son of Farooq Ahmed Kaboo and a resident of Maratgaam, Handwara at Regipora crossing, who was moving under suspicious circumstances. During his personal search 20 grams of brown sugar was recovered from his possession.
During initial questioning, Waseem disclosed that he was contacted by some addicts of Kupwara to deliver the drugs to them, they said.
The police registered cases under NDPS Act against both the peddlers. Some more arrests cannot be ruled out in these cases in the coming days, they added.
“Two drugs peddlers namely Ashiq Ahmad Rather son of Habibullah Rather of Kandi and Waseem Ahmed Kaboo a R/o Maratgaam arrested along with Charas and Brown Sugar respectively; another peddler Hilal Rashid Khan of MaidanporaLolab booked under PSA”, a police tweet said.