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Jammu and Kashmir Police arrest five drug peddlers in three districts
Police in Shopian, Pulwama, and Ganderbal have arrested five drug peddlers in separate operations on August 7 and 9. In Shopian, officers seized 44 grams of charas sticks from Mushtaq Ahmad Dar…
The Story in Brief
Police in Shopian, Pulwama, and Ganderbal have arrested five drug peddlers in separate operations on August 7 and 9. In Shopian, officers seized 44 grams of charas sticks from Mushtaq Ahmad Dar during a naka check at Manihal Crossing. In Pulwama, Adil Bashir Ganie was caught with 27 bottles of codeine-based Wecan-D concealed under his motorcycle seat at Checkpora Bypass Bridge.
In Ganderbal, police arrested Javaid Ahmad Dar and Arbaz Ahmad Reshi on August 7 with 11 grams of heroin-like substance. A backward-linkage investigation led to the supplier, Ajaz Ahmad Dar, from whose premises police recovered another 52 grams of heroin and Rs 20,950 in suspected drug proceeds. Cases under the NDPS Act have been registered at respective police stations, and samples are being sent for forensic examination. Police have appealed for public cooperation to report drug peddling.
The Indian Opinion
Jammu's police often trumpet street-level arrests, but the real measure is whether they disrupt the supply chain. The backward-linkage in Ganderbal, tracing heroin to a supplier and seizing Rs 20,950 in cash, suggests genuine follow-through. Yet with 63 grams recovered, the quantity is small. The question is how many such networks operate undetected. The test will be the number of prosecutions that lead to convictions, not just press releases. Will the promised forward and backward linkages actually dismantle the larger network, or is this a periodic show of force?
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