Awantipora : Police on Tuesday saud that it has arrested a drug peddler in South Kashmir’s Awantipora polce district and also recovered contraband substance from his possession.
In a statement issued on Tuesday police said that officers at a checkpoint established at Kawani Awantipora intercepted a suspect moving in suspicious circumstances and upon checking recover 600 gms of grinded cannabis concealed in polythene bag from his possession after which he was identified as Shakeel Ahmad Dar resident of Liddermud.
Stating that the above named accused was formally arrested and shifted to police station where he remains in custody, police in it’s statement further said that a case vide FIR No. 06/2022 under relevant sections of law stands registered at Police Station Awantipora.
In the concluding para of it’s above quoted statement police appealed people to come forward with any information regarding drug peddlers in their neighbourhood but warned that people found involved in drug peddling will be dealt as per law, stating therein further that consistent actions against drug peddlers are taken to keep society free from the scourge of drug menace.