SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday booked four notorious drug peddlers under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (PIT-NDPS Act) in Srinagar.
These drug peddlers namely Ashiq Ahmad Badyari S/o Abdul Hamid Badyari R/o Boatman Colony, Bemina, Arbaz Irshad Sheikh S/o Late Irshad Sheikh R/o Qamarabad, Qamarwari, Ubair Mushtaq S/o Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat R/o SDA Colony, Bemina and Waseem Ahmad Bhat S/o Abdul Rashid Bhat R/o Dangerpora, Elahibagh have been booked under the PIT-NDPS Act after obtaining the formal detention orders from Divisional Commissioner on the basis of dossiers prepared by Srinagar police against them.
Consequently, these drug peddlers were detained and subsequently lodged in Kot Balwal Jail Jammu and District Jail of Udhampur.
These drug peddlers have been involved in the peddling of narcotics among the youth of Srinagar on an alarming scale. Besides, they were also involved in several NDPS Act cases of various police stations of Srinagar. Despite several NDPS Act cases registered against them, they did not mend their ways after getting bailed out from courts and were brazenly promoting drugs among the youth of the valley, especially in Srinagar, through their illegal narcotics network. Srinagar Police has also set into motion the process to attach their properties under the provisions of PIT-NDPS Act.
Pertinently, Police has been systemically targeting and dismantling the illegal narcotics infrastructure in the Srinagar city and numerous drug peddlers have been detained under the PIT NDPS Act in Srinagar till date. — (KIMS)