Aman Zutshi
Continuing its combat against Narco trafficking and smuggling in Jammu and Kashmir, the Nowshera police under the jurisdiction of Rajouri district apprehended three drug traffickers and confiscated more than 40cr of drugs from their possession in the Nowshera block yesterday.
A highly professional police team of Nowshera police station headed by SHO Sumit Magotra, SDPO Nowshera Jaswant Singh and SSP Rajouri Amrit Pal Singh nabbed three drug suppliers along the Line of Control (LoC) at Badi Makri village of Nowshera and found from them drugs more than 40cr value in the international market.
The police search the vehicles of the drug dealers which includes, 1 tipper (JK11G8147), Bike (JK11C3422) , Load carrier (JK11C9644) and recovered 10 kg of Heroin from it worth more than 40crores. However, another drug dealer who was part of the gang identified as Shubam Sayal is at large and police has intensified search to apprehend him.
The apprehended drug smugglers were identified as Naveen Kumar son of Moti Ram,Sukhvinder son of Babu Ram and Davinder alias Munna son of Rajesh Kumar all residents of Badi Makri village of Nowshera town.
The illegal drug trade, drug trafficking, or narcotrafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs. Most jurisdictions prohibit trade, except under license, of many types of drugs through the use of drug prohibition laws. The think tank Global Financial Integrity’s Transnational Crime and the Developing World report estimates the size of the global illicit drug market between US$426 and US$652 billion in 2014 alone. With a world GDP of US$78 trillion in the same year, the illegal drug trade may be estimated as nearly 1% of total global trade. Consumption of illegal drugs is widespread globally, and it remains very difficult for local authorities to reduce the rates of drug consumption.
