Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 23: A drug-peddler was arrested along with a consignment in Mendhar area of district Poonch today.
On the basis of information a joint naka of Mendhar police and Army unit of 19 Kamaun under the supervision of SDPO Mendhar, Zaheer Abbas Jafri, was established in Basooni area of Mendhar. During naka checking, one person namely Mohammad Maroof, son of Mohammad Amin (23), resident of Dabbi was intercepted and during frisking one 800 gms packet of Narcotics(Heroin) was recovered from his possession
In this regard FIR No.19/2021 U/s 8/21/22 NDPS has been lodged in P/S Mendhar and the accused is arrested by the police. The possibility of consignment being smuggled from across the LoC cannot be ruled out .
Investigation is going on to ascertain the backward and forward linkages.
This is the second major recovery of Narcotics in last few days by Mendhar Police and security forces.