Kishtwar, May 16: The Kishtwar police has smashed an inter-district drug racket operating between Kishtwar Jammu and Srinagar. The police has arrested 01 person and recovered a huge quantity of drug.
While divulging details the Senior Superintendent of Police Shakti K. Pathak said that the police had developed a specific information in the last few days that a group of persons are involved the inter-district sale and purchase of banned sedative drugs. Acting on this information a police party led by SHO Police Station Kishtwar Inspector Suraj Pathnia and I/C PP Hidyal SI Rajesh Kumar conducted raid in Gurudhawara area and recovered 6000 tablets of TRM-Spas (Tramadol). All these tablets are sedative in nature and the persons arrested use to sell these to the youth and students for addiction against huge payments.
The police has arrested 01 person in this regard who have been identified as Naved Malik S/O Abdul Rashid R/O Maliknar Chatroo Kishtwar.
The police has registered case FIR No. 94/2019 u/s 8/21/22 NDPS act in police station Kishtwar against the accused person. The police is investigating the case and more arrests are likely in near future, said the SSP. He said that police is all out against the drug peddlers and shall not spare anyone in this regard. He appealed the people to keep a strict watch on the activities of their wards and inform police wherever needed.