Jammu Tawi, Nov 17: Jammu and Kashmir Police and Anti Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) team
have recovered over 1200-kg poppy straw and 1.5-kg cannabis in two separate operations in
Udhampur and Jammu districts of the Union Territory.
Police sources said that during routine checking, acting on tip off, team led by Station House
Officer, Police Station Udhampur, Raghubir Singh, intercepted a Haryana bound tanker near
Jakhaini coming from Kashmir.
"During checking, approximately 800-kg poppy straw concealed in specially designed boxes
was recovered from the vehicle," they said.
The tanker was seized and both driver and his helper was taken into custody, they added.
The operation was carried under an overall supervision of Senior Superintendent of Police,
Udhampur, Vinod Kumar.
Meanwhile, in another operation, J&K ANTF team continuing its efforts to eradicate the menace
of drug trafficking from its gross root level under the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, arrested one
interstate drug peddler and recovered huge quantity of contraband substances from his
possession in Jammu.
Senior Superintendent of Police, ANTF, Vinay Kumar said, "team foiled a bid to smuggle
commercial quantity of Poppy Straw and Charas worth lakhs of Rupees."
He said that team received a specific information that one Truck driven by Satpal Singh,
resident of Bulla Gurdaspur, Punjab with criminal intention has concealed huge quantity of
Poppy Straw and Charas in the Truck which has come from Kashmir Valley and going out of
J&K UT was parked near Try Ground Behind Wave Mall Narwal, Jammu.
Acting on information, ANTF team immediately swung into action and spotted the truck.
"During search, 411 Kg of Poppy Straw and 1.550 Kg of Charas was recovered and the
accused person has been arrested in the instant case and the vehicle is seized," said Kumar.
He added that Anti-Narcotics Task Force is investigating forward and backward links of this
racket.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the arrested drug peddler was going to sell the same
contraband among the youth and other drug peddlers at Punjab, said Vinay Kumar.
