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The J&K Police connected Thursday said 806 persons were arrested nether the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS), 97 properties worthy Rs 41.85 crore were attached and 97 properties worthy ₹41.85 crore were demolished betwixt April 11 and May 13, arsenic portion of the ongoing anti-drug run of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha.
“Police person arrested 806 accused successful 724 NDPS cases crossed J&K. 97 properties worthy ₹41.85 crore linked to the narcotics commercialized were identified and attached during the campaign. The Anantnag Police unsocial attached properties worthy ₹6.17 crore successful a azygous case,” said J&K Director General of Police Nalin Prabhat.
He said 41 properties worthy astir ₹15 crore, “identified arsenic proceeds of cause trafficking”, were demolished aft completion of ineligible formalities. Illegal cultivation of poppy and cannabis dispersed implicit 117 kanals of onshore was besides destroyed, the DGP added.
DGP Prabhat said properties were besides attached extracurricular the Union Territory astatine places similar Gurdaspur, Pathankot and Chandigarh. “It’s aimed astatine dismantling wider cause networks operating crossed states,” helium added.
According to constabulary figures, constabulary seized 667 kilograms of narcotics and 90,000 psychotropic tablets and took 24 habitual offenders into preventive detention.
Terming “Pakistan-sponsored coercion and narco-terrorism arsenic the gravest threats facing J&K,” DGP Prabhat said the Police volition “continue its intensified violative against cause traffickers and their interstate and cross-border networks”.
He said the attachment of assets witnessed a important summation betwixt 2023 and 2026. “The J&K Police secured 3rd presumption astatine the nationalist level successful 2025 for enactment against narcotics-linked properties. 240 PIT-NDPS detentions were executed during 2025, placing the constabulary astatine the apical presumption successful the state nether the category,” said the DGP.
Besides, Mr. Prabhat said driving licences of 162 persons “involved successful narcotics-related activities were cancelled oregon suspended” and 92 registration certificates were revoked. The constabulary besides recommended the impounding of 10 passports.
Meanwhile, the constabulary said 3 “illegally nether operation shops” belonging to an NDPS accused were demolished successful Kulgam arsenic portion of the intensified drive. In Anantnag, a associated anti-encroachment thrust conducted astatine Gawran Larnoo saw demolition of 2 amerciable store structures belonging to 2 notorious cause peddlers, the constabulary said.
In Srinagar, a residential location on with onshore worthy astir ₹1.20 crore “belonging to a notorious cause peddler” was attached, said the police. In Kulgam, the constabulary said an interstate narcotics web was busted and a “notorious woman cause peddler on with her associate” was arrested.
Meanwhile, the constabulary besides attached an immovable spot comprising onshore worthy ₹20 Lakhs successful Bandipora allegedly of an accused progressive successful terror-related activities and presently operating arsenic a panic handler from Pakistan/Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK).
“Investigations person revealed that the accused is presently operating from Pakistan/PoK arsenic a panic handler affiliated with the banned violent outfit Hizbul Mujahideen and has been actively progressive successful facilitating and orchestrating violent activities successful Kashmir Valley,” the constabulary said.
