STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Under the Union Government’s programme Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) J&K, the specialised unit of JKP to tackle the menace of drugs, on Tuesday recovered a large quantity of formulated narcotic drugs from a sleeper bus and arrested the driver.
“The team of ANTF conducted series of raids in Jammu and finally zeroed in and arrested one of the most wanted drug suppliers who was identified as Mohd Ishaq alias Shaka, son of Rehmat Ali, resident of Gujjar Colony, Channi Himmat, Jammu along with the consignment of 120 Codeine Phosphate Bottles at ISBT Transport Yard Narwal Jammu,” said SSP ANTF J&K, Vinay Sharma.
Vinay added that the accused is main drug peddler of Channi Himmat Jammu and involved in multiple case of NDPS at different police stations.
“The arrested person is the main supplier of Narcotics and Psychotropic substances which are being smuggled from NCR to J&K UT and a Case FIR No 3/2023 under Section 8/21/22 NDPS Act of Police Station ANTF has been registered against the habitual offender,” SSP Vinay said adding that there is nexus between narcotics drug peddlers and few distributors of Delhi, NCR, Solan, who supply the formulated narcotics to the peddlers in Jammu and Kashmir and the suppliers and distributors supply the drugs to the addicted youth of the UT of J&K and Punjab.
“The investigation is under progress to unearth the nexus between the suppliers and the distributors and owners of the bus if any to transport narcotics to different statesm,” Vinay said.
The arrest and the recovery were done by Inspector Varuneshwar Singh under guidance of Shamsher Singh ANTF Jammu Zone under overall supervision of Vinay Sharma, SSP ANTF J&K.
This arrest has been hailed as a big sigh of relief for the sleuths as well as Youth of Jammu and Kashmir. The other involvements in the case are being investigated and more arrests are expected in near future.
In yet another successful operation, ANTF Jammu has conducted raids at multiple locations in Kashmir Valley recently and arrested one of the hardcore narcotics drug suppliers with the help of Budgam Police from Ichgam in Budgam district.
The arrested person has been identified as Nisar Ahmed Rather, son of Mohd Qasim Rather, resident of Ichgam Budgam, who is a notorious Kingpin/Supplier and wanted in Case FIR 15/2022 under Sections 8/15/20/25/29 NDPS Act 201 IPC of Police Station ANTF Jammu, SSP Vinay said adding that Nisar is the main supplier of Narcotics and Psychotropic drugs which are being smuggled from Jammu and Kashmir to Punjab and other states of northern India. He was operating from Kashmir Valley and was associate of another drug dealer of Punjab Surinder Pal and his other associates who used to collect the consignments and sell it to the local youth of Punjab to earn hefty illegal amounts.
The Punjab based main receiver namely Surinder Pal is already arrested and lodged in jail.
With the arrest of these main notorious drug dealers, ANTF Jammu has been able to break the nexus of Narcotics and Psychotropic drugs suppliers and receivers from Kashmir Valley to Punjab.
The raids were led by Inspector Amandeep Singh of ANTF under the guidance of senior officers.