Srinagar, May 16 (KNO): Police in Srinagar have attached properties worth 5.8 crore belonging to three alleged drug peddlers as part of an ongoing crackdown on narcotics trafficking in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday.
A team from the Khanyar police station attached three immovable properties along with a vehicle belonging to the accused under Section 68-F of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, a police spokesman said in a statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO).
The action was part of the 100-day ‘Nasha Mukt Jammu and Kashmir Abhiyan’ launched by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on April 11 to curb drug trafficking and dismantle the financial networks of those involved in it, officials said.
The first property belonged to Nazir Ahmad Mir, alias Nazir Lashkari – a double-storey residential house along with eight shops built on 4.5 marlas of land at Koolipora in Khanyar – estimated to be worth Rs 3.2 crore, the spokesman said.
The second property belonged to Gulzar Ahmad Mir, a resident of Miskeen Bagh, Khanyar. It included an SUV along with seven marlas of land and a temporary structure erected on it, with a combined estimated value of Rs 1.8 crore, the spokesman said.
The third belonged to Zahid Manzoor Rather, a resident of Lone Mohalla, Nowpora Khanyar, comprising a single-storey residential house built on nine marlas of land, valued at Rs 80 lakh, he said.
The attached assets were acquired using proceeds of narcotics trafficking, the spokesman added—(KNO)