Drug peddler’s house attached in J-K’s Samba

Jammu, Mar 18: A house belonging to a notorious drug peddler was attached in Samba district on Wednesday, police said.

The house of Masoom Ali alias ‘Kala’ was attached at Rakh Barotian in Vijaypur tehsil, under section 68-F of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, a police spokesperson said.

Valued at about Rs 40 lakh, the property, he said, was bought with proceeds from illegal jobs.

Masoom Ali has been named in five FIRs registered at three different police stations in Samba, the spokesperson said. He has been lodged in the Udhampur jail since last year.