Continuing its efforts to eradicate the menace of drugs from the society, Special Operations Group (SOG) Jammu  along with sleuths of Police Station Channi Himmat  achieved a major success by recovering huge quantity of Poppy Straw which was being illegally smuggled ina  truck bearing registration  number PB-23 J5843 at National Highway near Channi area under the jurisdiction of Police Station  Channi Himmat of district Jammu this evening.

The accused driver and conductor of the truck who were smuggling the contraband in the truck has been identified as Deedar Singh S/O Payara Singh  R/o Barola Pind tehsil Samrala district Ludhiana and Manpreet s/o Kabul Singh r/o Handumate tehsil samrala district Ludhiana.

Reports revealed that, a special naka was laid jointly beSOG Jammu led by Insp Javed Kataria and sleuths of PS Channi Himmat by SHO Channi Insp Parvez Sajjad at National Highway near Channi area and checking / frisking was intensified. During the process of checking, one truck bearing number PB-23 J5843 was intercepted and put to thorough checking. During search of the truck 1700 kilograms of Poppy Straw which was concealed in 193 Apple boxes weighing 9 kgs each inside thetruck  was recovered

In this regard a case FIR No. 16/2020 U/S  8/15/29/60 NDPS Act stands registered atPS  Channi Himmat  and investigation taken up.

The whole operation was closely monitored by SSP SOG Jammu Sandeep Mehta-KPS and supervises by SSP Jammu Tejinder Singh- IPS.