Jammu, Sept 5: The Jammu Zonal Unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), in a sustained intelligence-led operation, has exposed two distinct routes being used to push heroin into Jammu and Kashmir-directly from Pakistan through the Uri sector and indirectly through Punjab.
An NCB spokesman, in a statement issued here on Saturday , said that in four heroin interceptions in the Jammu Division within about a month, along with a linked follow-up recovery in Punjab, the NCB has seized a cumulative 6.920 kg of heroin.
Significantly, he said that two of these operations were conducted inside drug-affected ‘bastis’, taking enforcement action directly into vulnerable pockets being exploited for drug trafficking.
The spokesman said that in the latest operation on September 3, NCB intercepted a passenger bus near New Bus Stand, Samba, and recovered 522 grams of Heroin from Aqib Bashir, resident of Kakapora, Pulwama, J&K.
“NCB immediately pursued the backward linkage of the consignment. The trail led to Ludhiana, Punjab, where a separate follow-up operation resulted in the recovery of another 197 grams of Heroin,” he added.
He said that the linked Samba-Ludhiana operation has so far resulted in the seizure of 719 grams of heroin, while further investigation is underway to identify and apprehend other persons connected with the supply, transportation and intended distribution of the consignment.
