SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday booked two ‘notorious’ drug smugglers under the PIT NDPS Act in Baramulla after obtaining formal detention orders from the competent authority.
The drug smugglers, Ehtisham ud Din Khan, son of Late Bashir Ahmad, resident of Gousia Mohalla Ladoora Watergam, and Farhat Begum alias Fancy, wife of Rayees Ahmad Khan, resident of Trikanjan Boniyar, have been booked under the PIT-NDPS Act after obtaining formal detention orders from the competent authority. “The booked drug smugglers have been detained and subsequently lodged in Central Jail Kot-Balwal Jammu and Central Jail Srinagar respectively,” a police spokesman said in a statement.
It added, “It is pertinent to mention that many cases are registered against them for their involvement in promoting the drug trade by supplying drugs to local youth in Town Baramulla, Kreeri, Trikanjan, Boniyar, and other areas of the district. Despite their involvement in many FIRs, they did not mend their activities and continued to promote the drug trade by supplying drugs to local youth, police said.”
