Seven Arrested in Jammu Drug Bust: Heroin and Poppy Straw Seized

Jammu: Seven alleged drug peddlers, including two brors, were arrested with heroin and poppy straw in separate incidents in Jammu and Udhampur districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Sunday.

In first incident, four people travelling in an SUV were intercepted by police in Nagrota area here on Sunday. During a search, 265 grams of heroin and Rs 4.05 lakh cash were recovered from ir possession, y said.

Three of accused -- Shabir Choudhary, his bror Shakeel and ir friend Farooq -- were arrested. One of m, Arif, a sibling of Shabir and Shakeel, managed to escape, police said.

In second incident, two women drug peddlers were arrested from Mansar area in Udhampur with 10.33 grams of heroin, y said.

In anor incident in Udhampur, an interstate narcotics smuggler, Avtar Singh, was arrested after nearly 10 kg of poppy straw was recovered from his Punjab -bound truck at Roundomail, police said.

y said separate cases have been registered in three matters under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. 

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