Udhampur 03 Sep(KNB) : Udhampur Police on Saturday arrested two narco smugglers and recovered hugequantity of Heroin, and seized one innova car
In a statement issued to news agency Kashmir News Bureau-KNB that Continuing its campaign against Drugs and Narcotics, Udhampur Police achieved a major success by recovering 07 Kilograms of Contraband Heroin at Jakhani (NHW) under the jurisdiction of Police Station Udhampur on 2nd September 2022,
Police team of Police Station Udhampur was conducting routine vehicle checking at Jakhani NHW and an Innova car bearing registration No. PB02CE-8131 was made to stop which was coming from Kashmir valley towards Udhampur. During checking of said Innova, Police recovered 07 packets (1kg each) of Heroin having value of approximately 40 crores in international market and arrested two interstate narco smugglers (Couple) who were smuggling the above contraband in the said Car.
The arrested persons were identified as Lovepreet Singh S/O Karnail Singh R/O Madan Lal Dheengra Colony, Amritsar Punjab and his wife Mandeep Kour W/O Lovepreet Singh R/O Madan Lal Dheengra Colony, Amritsar Punjab. In this connection, A case FIR No. 373 /2022 U/S 8/21/22 NDPS Act has been registered at PS Udhampur and further investigation of the case has been taken up. Preliminary enquiry has revealed that these smugglers have received this consignment from some unknown persons in Srinagar and were on the way to deliver it in Punjab.(KNB)