+

J&K Police launches war against drugs in Bandipora

The Bandipora police, led by Senior Superintendent of Police, Mohammad Zahid, have taken the scourge of drugs seriously, while the DSP Headquarters, Shafat Mohmad, has put the responsibility of this task on his shoulders to fight this battle.While giving details, the district police chief, Mohammad Zahid, said that 58 NDPS cases were registered since 2021 […]

The Bandipora police, led by Senior Superintendent of Police, Mohammad Zahid, have taken the scourge of drugs seriously, while the DSP Headquarters, Shafat Mohmad, has put the responsibility of this task on his shoulders to fight this battle.
While giving details, the district police chief, Mohammad Zahid, said that 58 NDPS cases were registered since 2021 and 82 drug peddlers, including some very infamous peddlers, have been arrested.
He said that 14.5 gm of brown sugar, 22,281 spasmoproxyvon tablets, 1,534 codeine bottles, xxx rum bottles, around 2 KG of charas, 32 KG of charas powder, 30 Tramafar injections, 11 KG of bung leaves, and 4,500 poppy straw have been recovered till now.
A senior police official said that recently, police had gotten information that the young students were being involved in the curse of drugs by taking the codeine bottles.
The police raided a house in the Kuloosa locality and about 1,300 bottles were recovered from there.
Two drug peddlers were also arrested and were found involved, along with school children.
The police informed us that on September 28, they arrested a notorious female drug peddler identified as Posha Begum.
She was evading arrest after managing to escape during a raid that happened on 25 August.
The police registered an FIR against her at the Bandipora Police Station. She is the wife of Khursheed Ahmad Waza of Ward Number 5 Bandipora.
In the days before she was arrested, police said that the different teams of the police station were constituted after getting specific information regarding her presence in Bandipora.
The information was corroborated with technical assistance. Different locations in the district were raided. She was produced before the Honourable Court Bandipora and was granted judicial remand.
People have expressed their gratitude to the police for this action and said that similar actions should be taken in the future.
Earlier, last week the district police organised an anti-drug awareness programme on the “Prevention of drug addiction” under the banner of Nasha Mukht Abhiyan Diwas at police stations Pethkote and Aragam respectively.

Tags: