Police apprehends several vagrants in Jammu

Jammu: Under the overall supervision of SSP Samba Benam Tosh, Police has apprehended seventeen (17) more vagrants who were found roaming near ‘chitta’ hotspots under preventive sections of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) in the jurisdiction of Police Station Bari Brahmana and Police Station Vijaypur.

The apprehended vagrants have been identified as Hazim Rashid s/o Abdul Rashid r/o Padshashi Bagh tehsil and district Srinagar, Irfan Ahmed Sofi s/o Gulam Quader r/o Padshashi Bagh tehsil and district Srinagar, Irfan Ahmed Sofi s/o Mohd Shafi r/o Pdshashi Bagh tehsil and district Srinagar, Aniket Mottan s/o Ashok Kumar r/o Bhadur Khan tehsil Bishnah district Jammu, Pervaiz Choudhary s/o Nazir Hussain r/o Budyal tehsil Vijaypur district Samba, Sajad Ahmed s/o Rehmat Ali Chib r/o Darmahri district Reasi, Gulshan Ahmed s/o Mohd Musnhi r/o Darmahri district Reasi, Zahoor Ahmed Khan s/o Ghulam Mohd Khan r/o Chanapura district Srinagar, Gulzar Ahmed s/o Lt. Mehraju Din r/o Chandpur district Srinagar, Shahid Iqbal s/o Mohd Shafi r/o district Poonch, Raja Ahmedullah Khan s/o Habib ullah Khan r/o district Poonch, Irfan Ahmed Khan s/o Muzaffar Hussain r/o Harnia district Poonch, Ayat Raza Mir s/o Ifthikar Hussain Mir r/o Lohirbella district Poonch, Imran Kazmi s/o Gulzar Hussain Shah r/o Sathra district Poonch, Mohd Shaqoor s/o Mohd Gafoor r/o Maralian district Jammu, Chanderpal Singh s/o Lt. Jagdish Singh r/o Nathwal tehsil Vijaypur district Samba and Abdul Wahid s/o Abdul Hamid r/o Rajinderpura tehsil Vijaypur district Samba. All the seventeen vagrants were apprehended while wandering suspiciously near infamous ‘chitta’ hotspots of Balole Khad Bari Brahmana, Sarore Bari Brahmana and Rakh Barotian & thus, appropriate preventive legal action has been taken.

The arrests have been made by police teams comprising of SHO Police Station Bari Brahmana Sumit Sharma, SHO Police Station Vijaypur Sandeep Charak, PSI Aaber Khan, PSI Vineet Rakhwal, PSI Nirmal Singh and PSI Vivek Singh under the supervision of SDPO Bari Brahmana Rahul Nagar, SDPO Vijaypur Rohit Kumar and Additional SP Samba Surinder Choudhary.

Senior Superintendent of Police Samba Benam Tosh said that a total of ninety two (92) vagrants have been apprehended by police near ‘chitta’ hotspots in past ten months and has appealed to the parents, guardians, teachers and elders of the society to ask senior students and youth to avoid roaming near known ‘chitta’ hotspots as police patrolling has been intensified around suspected hotspots of heroin in Samba distri