JAMMU: The State Investigation Agency (SIA) has detained a major suspect in a case involving the cross-border smuggling of weapons, explosives, and drugs into Poonch from the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh. He is recognised as Mohammad Iqbal son of Slam Din, a resident of the Poonch district village of Karmara. Since the arrest of three of his associates, who were found with an enormous cache of weapons, explosives, and drugs close to the border fence in the Karmara district of Poonch on the intervening night of May 30 and 31, he has been evading capture, according to officials.The SIA team discovered after conducting investigations that one Muhammad Iqbal had left the location. Iqbal was apprehended by a team from the SIA Jammu after it was determined through technological monitoring and human information that he was hiding in the Mandi region of Himachal Pradesh. Inspector Lakhvir, Inspector Vinod, ASI Deepak Bhat, Head Constable Kanhaya Lal, and Selection Grade Constables Gurjeet Singh and Susheel Kumar made up the SIA squad, which was led by DySP Rafiq Manhas. The SIA added that after apprehending the group’s handler, Muhammad Javed, on August 19 as he was also fleeing, on August 25 from Poonch, they went on to apprehend Liyaqat, another co-conspirator. An investigation has shown that handlers from other nations, such as Pakistan and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), are in charge of this narco-terror module. According to them, forward and backward links of the narco terror module are being established, and six arrests have been made thus far in the case. According to the officials, SIA is actively looking into many facets of this drug trafficking organization’s cross-border operations. The organisation is known to smuggle weapons, explosives, and drug consignments across the border. Research is being done on the elements of accumulating disproportionate wealth quickly, as this case demonstrates.
