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JAMMU: J&K Police Wednesday claimed to person busted a large narco-terror nexus with links extending to Punjab and crossed the border, and arrested 20, including 3 alleged kingpins.
The cause proviso concatenation had been feeding narcotics into the Union Territory, SSP Jammu Joginder Singh said.Surajdeep Singh, Harpreet Singh alias Raju, and Jaspreet, who were arrested from Amritsar, were kingpins of the narco-terror module determination and supplied narcotics to astir 20 guardant links successful Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts, the SSP said. J&K Police registered aggregate FIRs against them.The trio was linked to cause kingpin Gulzar Ahmad alias Lau Gujjar, who was arrested connected April 15 on with immoderate associates and booked nether the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
J&K Police had recovered a Pakistan-made pistol and astir 700g of heroin from him, indicating cross-border linkages.“The 3 were liable for supplying astir 80% of narcotic substances to the Jammu region. They were backward links of Gujjar and his J&K-based network,” the SSP said. The dismantling of the web resulted successful the betterment of 1 AK-47 firearm and 40 unrecorded rounds; 1 Star pistol and 29 unrecorded cartridges; 4 unrecorded 12-bore cartridges; implicit 1kg of narcotics and Rs 11 lakh currency from the 3 kingpins.
Three cellphones, 3 four-wheelers, and an physics weighing instrumentality were besides seized, the SSP said.“Over the past respective months, we person identified, dismantled and arrested members of galore supply-chain modules. Analysis of backward and guardant linkages revealed that astir of the proviso routes traced backmost to Punjab. Investigation established that a fistful of individuals operating nether aggregate identities via respective telephone numbers were controlling the bulk of narcotics proviso to Jammu and neighbouring districts,” SSP Singh said.“Backward linkages uncovered during Gujjar’s probe yet led the constabulary to Punjab-based suppliers arrested successful the latest operation. During searches successful Amritsar, recoveries included not lone narcotics, currency and vehicles but besides blase weapons specified arsenic an AK-47 rifle, an AK-56 rifle, a pistol and ammunition,” the SSP said.Singh said narcotics were smuggled crossed the borderline and received by Punjab-based handlers. The consignments were past either collected straight by section suppliers from Jammu oregon transported via couriers.
