2 held with 5 kg of heroin near LoC in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri

The Jammu and Kashmir Police, in a joint operation with the Indian Army, arrested two local residents along with a huge quantity of narcotics from near the Line of Control (LoC) in the border Rajouri district on Sunday midnight.

The operation was initiated based on specific intelligence in the border village of Sair-Makri, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Bhawani police station. Sources indicated that approximately 5 kg of heroin was seized from the houses of the two arrested. The questioning of the arrested people was in progress.

The seized narcotic was reported to have been smuggled from across the LoC and meant to fund terror activities out of its sale proceeds, sources added. During preliminary investigations, the police discovered that a dumper, a motorcycle, and a load carrier were involved in narcotics smuggling, sources said, adding that the authorities subsequently seized all three vehicles.

Notably, this is the same area where village defence guards (VDGs) apprehended four cross-border smugglers in two separate incidents in April this year. As much as 9.98 kg of heroin was seized from those smugglers. The Sair-Makri village falls ahead of the barbed wire fence along the LoC, which is also called as Anti-Infiltration Obstacle System (AIOS).