Continuing its Crusade against Drugs, SOG Jammu achieved a major success by recovering Poppy Straw in two different raids at separate places  under the jurisdiction of Police Station Udhampur  late last night .

Reports revealed that SOG Jammu laid a special naka with the sleuths of PS Udhampur at Udhampur . One truck bearing registration number JKO3D 7707  was made to stop which was coming from Kashmir towards Jammu and cops arrested one narcotic smuggler who was smuggling the 365 kilograms  Poppy straw concealed in bags in the truck. The truck driver has been identified as Sunil Kumar s/o Dharampal R/o Gandhi Camp H.N.o B/2/80/6 Jalandhar.In this connection case FIRNo 570/2019 U/S 8/15 Ndps Act stand registered at PS Udhampur.

In another operation , SOG Jammu and Police Party of Udhampur  during nakka checking at Jakheni at late last night  intercepted one truck bearing registration number PB32E 7299 driven by driver namely Luckys/o Anayat Massi R/o Chitta pindh District Jalandhar Punjab and recovered 346 kg poppy straw from the truck. In this connection case FIR no.571/2019 U/S 8/15 NDPS Act stand registered at Police Station  Udhampur .

The whole operation was monitored closely by SSP Operations Jammu Sh. Sandeep Mehta and was supervised by SSP Udhampur Sh. Rajiv Pandey.

The officers have urged the civil society to strengthen the hands of Police in weeding out this menace by providing the timely andactionable inputs about the movement and activities of these drugs mugglers/peddlers in their respective areas to Police.