KUPWARA: In one more case of motion towards drug peddlers within the district, Kupwara Police has arrested two infamous drug peddlers from Sogam space in Kupwara district.
On Wednesday, throughout an everyday naka checking by a staff of Police Station Sogam led by SHO Sogam DySP (Prob) Khadim Hussain at Wavoora crossing, a automobile of the kind i10 Grand, bearing V.R. No JK01X 6548 was intercepted. Two people, who have been in a state of drug-consumption and puffing cigarettes, have been discovered within the automobile. Upon questioning, they have been recognized as Mir Bazil, a Junior Assistant within the Training division, son of Manzoor Ahmad Mir resident of Khurhama, Lolab and Ishaq Khan @ D-Khan son of Mohd Abdullah Khan resident of Maidanpora, Lolab, police stated.
A search of the automobile was carried out, and in the course of the course of, roughly 109 grams of the heroin-like substance, wrapped in a chunk of white polythene bag, and a few amount of charas-like substance, wrapped in a chunk of blue polythene bag, was recovered from a gap adjoining to the mud-guard of the rear tyre on the left aspect of the automobile, police stated.
FIR No. 28/2023 U/S 8 r/w 20,21,29 NDPS Act has been registered in Police Station Sogam and the investigation is presently underway. The interception of the automobile and the arrest of the 2 people is a big blow to the drug-peddling community within the Lolab space, because the stated two people have been turning into a menace to the lives of the younger individuals of the world, police stated.