Narcotics peddler nabbed near LoC in Jammu & Kashmir's Poonch

A narcotics peddler was arrested on suspicion of smuggling a consignment of drugs in a village close to the Line of Control in the Mendhar sub-division of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch sector.

Poonch Police and Army on Sunday arrested a narcotics peddler suspected of smuggling a consignment of drugs in a village close to the Line of Control in the Mendhar sub-division of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch sector. A consignment of brown sugar-like substance was confiscated from the suspect. SSP Poonch Dr Vinod Kumar said that on Sunday, a joint team of police and Army was on routine naka checking at Basooni in Balakote when a man was intercepted for exhibiting suspicious behaviour.