Rajouri Police nabs 2 smugglers, poppy straw, Charas recovered

Report by: Sandeep Kumar
Jammu | 28 July 2020

In its efforts to check smuggling of narcotics and drugs related substances, police here in Rajouri district on Tuesday arrested two smugglers and recovered a consignment of poppy straw and Charas that duo were smuggling by hiding the same in a well prepared hidden cabin inside the vehicle.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Rajouri, Chandan Kohli said that a team of police headed by SDPO Nowshera Zakir Shaheen Mirza alongwith SHO Nowshera Amit Singh under the supervision of AdSP Nowshera GL Sharma was deployed on routine highway naka duty at model police checkpoint at Thalka on Nowshera-Rajouri stretch of highway.
During naka checking, a Tata Mobile JK12 1664 was signalled to stop with a driver and co-driver were travelling in it.
" The vehicle was frisked and nothing untoward was found from it but both driver and co-driver were behaving suspiciously and were also changing answers of routine questioning by cops." SSP said adding that such abrupt behaviour of duo created suspicion after which the vehicle was put to thorough frisking.
" A well created hidden cabin( cavity) at the base of vehicle was unearthed by cops after hectic efforts and searching and a huge consignment of 92 kilograms of poppy Straw packed in 53 polythene bags and one bag containing 1 kilograms and 700 grams of Charas was recovered from the hidden box." said SSP.
He added that vehicle was seized on the spot and both the smugglers have been arrested who include driver Mumtaz Ali son of Noor Alam and co-driver Mohammad Mukhtar son of mohammad Aziz resident of Dalyote Barot village of Kalakote.
" A case in FIR 148/2020 under relevant sections of law of NDPS Act has been registered in Nowshera police station and further investigation is going on into the matter." he added.