Foiling an inter-state smuggling bid, police claimed to have arrested a person with 600 kg poppy straw (bukki) near SIDCO Chowk in Samba district.
Based on intelligence inputs an attempts being made to smuggle narcotics in apple boxes, a Samba police officer said that, “We had inputs about the smuggling and accordingly the trap was laid and the truck when reached Mansar Morh was intercepted by the police team before it could be smuggled to Punjab from Kashmir via Jammu.”
The police officer said that, “The police team was checking vehicles at naka in Mansar Morh. However, the driver of the truck, fearing interception, tried to dodge the police. But the police team was able to nab him near SIDCO Chowk in Samba.”
When the truck was checked, he said that “We found 98 apple boxes filled with poppy straw weighing around 600 kg.”
The police immediately arrested truck driver Mohammed Yousaf (40), son of Mohammed Faizal Khan, resident of Anantnag district. Police have seized the truck and a case in this regard has been registered at the concerned police station in this regard.
