Mukesh Singh: No drugs in Jammu!
- The Additional Director General of Police, Jammu, Mukesh Singh said that police, working on a tip-off, laid a special naka in the jurisdiction of police station Bahu Fort.
- The SSP Jammu Chandan Kohli IPS has exhorted the police officers of Jammu district to wipe out the drug peddling.
JJ CORRESPONDENT
Jammu, July 26: The Jammu police under the wise and able guidance of ADGP Jammu Mukesh Singh and SSP Jammu Chandan Kohli have taken the challenge to work against the drug menace and to thwart every attempt to smuggle the drugs or any other narcotics substance.
The police of Jammu, in a major success, arrested three drug peddlers and seized 12 kg of heroin, valued at around Rs 24 crore in the international market, and approximately Rs 11 lakh cash, from them, officials said.
Giving details, Additional Director General of Police, Jammu, Mukesh Singh said that police, working on a tip-off, laid a special naka in the jurisdiction of police station Bahu Fort.
Meanwhile, the concerned SHO was having information about the smugglers and so he laid a nakka and successfully nabbed the trio. He has developed some information about the smuggling of heroin in Jammu and so he devised the plan to nab them.
Three suspects, travelling in a car, were intercepted and searched, he said, adding the drug and the cash was recovered from them.
An FIR was registered and three accused, identified as Sarvwan Singh, Malkeet Singh, and Balbir Singh, all residents of Amritsar, were arrested.
ADG Jammu said that the Jammu police is working tirelessly to uproot the chain of drug supply in the region.
“Thorough questioning of the accused is going on to know the origin of the drugs taking into account both the forward as well as backward linkages. From the packing material of the drugs, it appears to have been dropped by drones. Further details will be available after detailed interrogation.”
