Srinagar : Police on Tuesday said that it has booked a drug smuggler under PIT-NDPS Act in Sopore after obtaining formal detention orders from the competent authority
In a statement issued from Zonal Police Headquarter Srinagar Police said that the drug smuggler identified as Altaf Hussain Yatoo S/o Farooq Ahmad Yatoo R/o Chijhama Rafiabad has been been booked under PIT-NDPS Act after obtaining formal detention orders from the competent authority, adding therein that the said accused has been taken into custody and is now being held in the Central Jail Kot-Balwal, Jammu.
Stating that many cases have been registered against the said drug smuggler and was still involved in drug abuse trade by supplying drugs to the local youth of the Police District Sopore and other areas , Police in the concluding para of its above quoted statement police said that people of the area have appreciated the role played by it in taking the action against drug smugglers.
