(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Jammu and Kashmir police has detained a Pakistan driver, after they recovered 305 packets of contraband narcotics drugs, from a fruit laden truck, during the cross LoC trade at Trade Facilitation Centre in Uri on Friday.
Officials said that driver Syed Anayat Hussain, a resident of Muzaffarabad Pakistan was detained and his truck was seized by police, after 305 packets of contraband narcotics were recovered from his vehicle in the cross LoC trade. The consignment, officials say, was for Zahoor Ahmad, a trader in North Kashmir's Baramulla town.
DIG Police Baramulla Gareeb Das told The Indian Express that police has registered a case and is investigating the matter. "The packets, each weighing 10-15 gms containing narcotic substance, were very carefully kept into the orange boxes in the truck. We are now investigating about the local people who could be a part of a racket."
He said that the police record of the consignee- a local trader is adverse. "The track record of the person, for whom the goods were meant, is bad. He has been in jail earlier as well," he said, adding that police had a preliminary input about the drugs.
This is not for the first time that police has recovered the narcotic substances in the cross LoC trade. Earlier, in January police had seized the drugs that had led to the brief suspension of the trade between the two countries.
Sources in the police say that the local trader has also been arrested in the case.
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