Police Attach Drug Peddler’s Property Worth Rs 50 Lakh in JK’s Udhampur

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday attached movable and immovable property worth over Rs 50 lakh belonging to an alleged drug peddler in Udhampur district.

According to a police spokesperson, the property of Sanjay Kumar alias ‘Sanju Bawa’, a resident of Upper Hartiyan, was attached under Section 68-F of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in connection with a case registered against him earlier this year.

During the course of the investigation, a residential house and a motorcycle owned by the accused were identified as illegally acquired property, the spokesperson said.

Kumar had been named in an FIR registered in 2022 at Rehambal Police Station under various provisions of the NDPS Act, the spokesperson added.