Kupwara: In a significant breakthrough, the Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday busted a Pakistani sponsored narco-terror module and recovered heroin price Rs 60 crore in a joint operation in Karnah city of Kupwara district.
The police additionally arrested the smuggler recognized as Mukhtiyar Shah of Panjitara Tanghdhar. He was in touch with the terrorists based mostly in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
Kupwara Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) GV Sundeep Chakravarthy stated your complete operation was being run in the previous couple of days on the premise of intelligence inputs, including 9 kg heroin has been recovered from the arrested individual.
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He added that data was acquired from police sources {that a} heavy consignment of heroin was being shifted from throughout the border with the motive to increase monetary help to the militant organizations inside the valley.
The SSP stated that raids had been performed at many locations in Kupwara following inputs, including the seized heroin was to be shifted to many locations in north Kashmir and Srinagar.
The case is being additional investigated to seek out out that the arrested individual was linked to which terror outfit and roughly how a lot medicine have to this point been introduced from throughout the border.
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The police have within the final yr seized round 300 kg of medicine from Kupwara and Baramulla areas.