Six peddlers held with heroin, cannabis in Jammu

JAMMU: Continuing its drive against drug menace, J&K Police on Friday arrested six peddlers across the Jammu region and seized 75gm heroin (chitta) and cannabis (charas) from them.


The police arrested two narcotics peddlers along with 55gm heroin that was recovered from them at a naka established under Bahu Fort police station .

“A police team from Bahu Fort police station led by SHO Deepak Pathania managed to round up two suspects identified as

Irshad Ahmed

and Tariq Ahmed of Damhal Hanjipura in

Kulgam

, near

JDA

parking ground when they were lurking in a suspicious manner and tried to flee on seeing the cops. They were chased and on frisking, 55gm heroin was seized from them,” police sources said.

Meanwhile, a police party from Udhampur police station led by Inspector Chanchal Singh recovered 20gm heroin from a vehicle that was stopped for checking while on its way towards Udhampur. Two peddlers

Shakil Ahmed

of Kheri, Udhampur, and Hamid Ali of Thard, also in Udhampur, were arrested.

In the third incident, the Akhnoor police on Friday arrested two drug peddlers with charas. The accused have been identified as Rohit Singh of Naiwala Camp in Akhnoor and Rohit Samotra of Bhalwal Brahmana in Jammu.

Cases have been registered against the six accused and further investigations are on.

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