J&K Police seizes 2214 bottles of Contraband drug, 3.5 kilogram Charas, 6 narcotic smugglers held

Jammu, Mar 13: Jammu Police with Special Operation Group team on Wednesday recovered 2214 bottles of Banned drug Codeine Phosphate and about 3.5 kilograms of high-quality charas and arrested six smugglers in two separate operations.

In the first operation, SOG Jammu along with Samba Police seized two trucks which were coming from Punjab and arrested four people and recovered 2214 bottles of codeine phosphate at Mansar Morh. The consignment was concealed in specially made cavities in the trucks.

The accused were identified as Omaak Ahmed Dar of Sonawar Sringar, Aaqib Gul of Khanomo Sringar, Shakeel Ahmed Dar of Dooru Shahbad Anantnag and Isfaq Manzoor of Khamano Sringar.

A case under relevant sections of NDPS Act has been registered at PS Samba.
In another raid carried out by SOG Jammu, a naka was laid near Ban Toll Plaza with the sleuths of PS Nagrota.

A tata mobile vehicle was signaled to stop but it accelerated the speed, which however was made to stop at another naka and after the thorough search of the vehicle and persons sitting in the said vehicle, a consignment of 3.5 kilograms of high quality charas was recovered.
The accused were identified as Firdoos Ahmed Dar of Tulkhan Bijbherra, Anantnag and Kounser Ahmed Dar of Tulkhan.