Srinagar, May 23: After receiving formal detention orders from the competent authority, Police on Thursday booked a terrorist associate linked with proscribed terror outfit LeT under PSA & four notorious drug smugglers under PIT-NDPS Act in Sopore&Handwara.
A Police spokesperson said a terrorist associate namely AhsanUlHaqKhanday son of Nazir Ahmad Khanday resident of NowporaKalanSopore has been booked under PSA.
While as three notorious drug smugglers namely Barkat Ahmad Dar son of Abdul Ahad Dar resident of Shair Colony Sopore, Umar Bashir Zargar son of Bashir Ahmad Zargar resident of BehramporaRafiabad and Musaib Bashir Lone son of Bashir Ahmad Lone resident of WadooraPayeenSopore have been booked under PIT-NDPS Act in Sopore. The booked persons have been detained and subsequently lodged in Central Jail Kot-Balwal, Jammu, he said.
Meanwhile, Police in Handwara booked a notorious drug peddler AijazAhamdBhat @Tanveer son of MohdRamzanBhat resident of KralgundQaziabad under PIT NDPS Act after obtaining a formal detention order from the competent authority. “The booked drug peddler has been detained and subsequently lodged in jail”, the spokesman said.
The spokesman said many cases are registered against the said drug peddlers and they were involved in promoting drug abuse by supplying drugs to the local youth. Despite their involvement in many FIRs, they did not mend his activities, he said.
