Jammu: In a major breakthrough, police busted inter-state narcotics racket and arrested two Punjab based smugglers with contraband of 22-kg heroin in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Rajouri, Amritpal Singh here on Thursday said that two Punjab based peddlers have been arrested while busting an inter-state narcotics peddling racket
recovering around 22-kg heroin like substance having high monetary value in market.
He added that the arrest has been made in Sunderbani area of Rajouri district with investigation
into forward and backward linkages of the case has been set into motion.
The top cop added that a specific intelligence input was received by police that two suspects are in transit from Rajouri towards Jammu in a vehicle and acting swiftly over it, police teams were put on alert across the district and existing nakas were strengthened to intercept them while some mobile MCVPs were also established.
SSP further said that last night at around 9:30 PM, a vehicle (JK01AB 5470) was intercepted on Jammu- Rajouri-Poonch national highway at police naka near ITI Sunderbani.
He said that two Punjab based person were travelling in the car which was put to frisking during which a large quantity of Heroin approximately 22 Kilograms.
“The consignment has been recovered from possession of two persons identified as Onkar Singh, resident of village Talmandi Barth, District Gurdaspur, Punjab and Shamsher Singh, resident of Village Barthmal, Tehsil Gurdaspur, Punjab,” he added.
Singh added that both the accused have been arrested while a case has been registered at Police station Sunderbani.
He added, “Further investigation into the matter is going on and all the forward and backward linkages are being traced with more arrests in the case are expected during the course of investigation.”
SSP Rajouri also termed this as a major success for police on anti narcotics front stating that
narco-terror aspect of this recovery is also being probed.
The arrest has been made by a police team headed by SHO Sunderbani Deepak Pathania under
the supervision of SDPO Nowshera Tusif Ahmed and Additional SP Nowshera Mohd Rafi Giri.
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