Kulgam: Police have arrested three drug peddlers and recovered huge quantity of contraband substances from their possession.
According to police statement, Police Post Frisal received specific information that some individuals identified as Javid Ahmad Dar Pervaiz Ahmad Dar and Imtiyaz Ah Mir @Pinna all the residents of Kujjar are involved in illegal business of Poppy straw at large scale and have stored a huge quantity of poppy straw in residential house of Pervaiz Ahmad Dar resident of Kujjar Yaripora. “Accordingly, a team headed by DySP PC Hatipora Shri Sumit Kumar-JKPS along with concerned Magistrate and SHO PS Yaripora and IC PP Frisal raided the said house; however the above mentioned three persons fled from the spot”, the statement reads adding that during search of the said house, 11 gunny bags filled with Poppy Straw weighing 200Kgs, a digital weighing machine and a grinder machine were recovered”.
Stating that case FIR No. 10/2021 under relevant sections of law has been registered at Police Station Yaripora and investigation is in progress , the police in it’s statement said that efforts are on to affect the arrest of the accused persons who are at large.
Saying that in almost another similar incident a police party headed by SHO PS Kulgam and supervised by Dy SP Hqrs Kulgam Ghulam Mohd Bhat during surprise checking near Hadigam crossing intercepted two persons who were roaming in suspicious conditions, police in it’s statement said “officers recovered 15gms of Heroin and 350gms of Charas from their possession”.
Police in it’s statement further said “ the accused have been identified as Hilal Ahmad Mir and Shahnawaz Ahmad Zargar both the residents of Okey Kulgam and both the accused have been arrested and shifted to police station where they remain in custody”.
Saying that a case vide FIR No. 22/2021 under relevant sections of law has been registered at Police Station Kulgam and investigation is in progress, police in it’s statement said that officers at the checkpoint established at Humshalibugh near Kokergund crossing intercepted a Santro car bearing registration No. JK01J- 6526 driven by Inam Ahmad Malik resident of Pinjoora Shopian.
Disclosing that during searches 13 bottles of psychotropic substances (Welcyrex) were recovered from his possession, police in it’s statement said “the accused has been arrested and the vehicle used in commission of crime has also been seized”, adding that “case FIR No. 09/2021 under relevant sections of law stands registered at Police Station Yaripora and investigation taken up”.
