Drug peddler's property attached in J&K's Baramulla

Srinagar, Nov 23 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday attached a property worth Rs 1.72 crore belonging to a drug peddler in the Baramulla district.

A police statement said Saturday, “Continuing its action against drug peddlers in Jammu and Kashmir, Baramulla Police attached multiple properties (double storeyed residential house at Chowadhi Jammu and Trikanjan Boniyar, Tipper, Trailer, and a four-wheeler) worth Rs 1.72 crore. The properties belong to a notorious drug peddler Rafiq Ahmad Khan alias Rafi Rafa son of Ghulam Hassan resident of Trikanjan Boniyar, district Baramulla."

The police said the action was taken under sections 68-E read with 68-F (1) of the NDPS Act of 1985 and is linked with case FIR nr 134/2016 u/s 8/21, 29 NDPS Act of PS Boniyar.

The properties were identified as illegally acquired during the course of an investigation conducted by police.

“The properties were acquired from the illicit trafficking of narcotics and psychotropic substances by the drug peddler,” the statement said.

Security forces and police in the union territory have launched an aggressive anti-terrorism campaign targeting terrorists, their over-ground workers (OGWs) and sympathisers.

Acting simultaneously against all those connected with terrorism is part of the security forces' campaign to eliminate the ecosystem of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.

While chairing high-level security review meetings in the UT, J&K Lt Governor Manoj Sinha has given clear orders that all those associated with terrorism will have to face punishment.

“Nobody can harbour terrorists and then claim that his house was unnecessarily damaged that was being used as a fortified bunker by the terrorists,” the Lt. Governor said.

During the last 10 years, the army, security forces and police have found a clear link between drug trafficking and terrorism in J&K.

The ultimate beneficiaries of drug smuggling have been the terrorist outfits as the funds so generated have been used all along for the various terror groups.