STATE TIMES NEWS
SRINAGAR: State Investigation Agency (SIA) Kashmir on Saturday continued its action against narcotics dealers by conducting searches at multiple locations in the districts of Srinagar, Budgam and Kupwara.
The searches were part of an investigation against Narco-terrorists who are financing terror through smuggling hard drugs from Pakistan and selling it in J&K and in other parts of the country, an official handout stated.
Equipped with search warrants issued by the Court of Special Judge, Designated under NIA Act (TADA/POTA) Srinagar, house searches were conducted in connection with investigation of case FIR No. 17/2022 u/s 8,21,29 NDPS Act, 13,17,18,39, 40 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 121 and 120-B, 121, 121-A IPC of Police Station CI-SIA Kashmir.
This case was registered by Police Station, CI-SIA(K), Srinagar on receipt of reliable information that a group of persons working as OGW(s) for different proscribed terrorist organization(s) under a well knit criminal conspiracy hatched with member(s) of proscribed terrorist organization(s) are involved in border smuggling of narcotic drugs / substance and the proceeds thereof are passed on to the terrorist organization(s) for furtherance of terrorist activities in J&K.
During investigation, it surfaced that proscribed terrorist organization(s) across the border in order to fuel the terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir are adopting various means and methods to provide logistic support to terrorist(s) and one of the ways and means is to send consignments of heroin, brown sugar and other contraband substances worth lakhs of rupees and smuggle the same to valley through their OGWs, conduit(s), supporter(s) and other terrorist sympathizers. These consignment of heroin, brown sugar and other narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances are being sold in markets or smuggled to other parts of the country for sale and proceeds of sale are being ploughed back or passed on to terrorist organization(s), terrorist(s),/secessionist(s), OGW(s) to further terrorist and unlawful activities. During the searches, incriminating material including digital weighing machine, Cell phones, Electronic gadgets, important documents, bank accounts, digital evidences and other incriminating material having a bearing on the investigation of the case were recovered and seized. Analysis of the data and evidences would follow and leads that would emerge would become the basis for further investigation, the handout added.