(This was originally posted in Zee News by Syed Khalid Hussain Hussain)
Kupwara Police Busted Pakistan Sponsored Narco-Terror Module Kupwara Police busted Pakistan Sponsored Narco-Terror module; Terrorist Associate arrested on Sunday (May 23) Four suspected drug peddlers were arrested with heroin and poppy straw in separate incidents in the Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Sunday (May 23). A truck that was going to Punjab from Kashmir was intercepted by police for checking at Jakhani Chowk along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway on Sunday afternoon, a police official said.
During a search, 30 kg of poppy straw was recovered from the truck. The truck driver, Bhajan Singh, a resident of Punjab, was arrested, he said. In another incident, 255 grams of heroin and an electronic weighing machine were recovered from a private vehicle at Roun Domail on Dhar road. The driver, Shubham Gupta alias Gagu, a resident of Udhampur, was arrested, the official said.
Two other residents of Udhampur, Ranbir Singh and Mohammad Toufiq were arrested with 15.5 grams of heroin and Rs 21,700 cash after they were found moving suspiciously near Modi Ground on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway on Saturday, he said. Incriminating Material Narcotic substance Heroin 8 kgs (worth Rs 50 crore Market value) were recovered from his possession.
WHAT IS NARCO-TERRORISM ?
Narcoterrorism, in its original context, is understood to refer to the attempts of narcotics traffickers to influence the policies of a government or a society through violence and intimidation, and to hinder the enforcement of anti-drug laws by the systematic threat or use of such violence.
