JAMMU, JULY 18: Under the directions of District Magistrate Jammu Dr Rakesh Minhas and in coordination with SSP Jammu Joginder Singh, joint teams of the District Administration and Jammu Police Saturday carried out a demolition drive against properties of drug peddlers in Jammu and Bishnah tehsils, dismantling several illegal structures built with proceeds of the drug trade.
With Saturday’s combined operations at Bishnah and Nikki Tawi, the District Administration and Jammu Police demolished illegal properties worth a cumulative nearly ₹3 crore linked to drug trafficking, besides recovering heroin and illegal weapons from the accused.
At Ismailpur Kothey in tehsil Bishnah, SDM Jammu South Manu Hansa and SP South Vaibhav Meena supervised demolition of a double-storey structure worth approximately ₹1.5 crore.
Among those present were Tehsildar Bishnah, SDPO Gandhinagar and the SHOs of Bishnah and Gangyal police stations.
At Nikki Tawi area in tehsil Jammu Khas, another joint team demolished properties belonging to two more drug peddlers.
The team razed to the ground a structure spread over approximately 2.5 kanals and valued at around ₹ 90 lakh.
In a parallel action, the team demolished commercial structures, vacating approximately 5 marlas of land valued at around ₹ 40 lakh.
These two operations removed illegal properties worth around ₹ 1.30 crore, linked to drug trafficking, from the Nikki Tawi area under provisions of the NDPS Act.
ACR Jammu Dr Rajesh Kumar and SP South Vaibhav Meena supervised the drive, which was held in the presence of Tehsildar Jammu Paramdeep Singh, SDPO East, SDPO South, SHO Gangyal, SHO Satwari, Naib Tehsildar, besides other officials.
