{"id":28732,"date":"2026-08-24T02:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=28732"},"modified":"2026-08-24T02:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:06:31","slug":"two-peddlers-detained-under-pit-ndps-act-in-jk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/two-peddlers-detained-under-pit-ndps-act-in-jk\/","title":{"rendered":"Two peddlers detained under PIT-NDPS Act in J&#038;K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jammu, Aug 23:<\/strong> Two notorious drug peddlers were detained under the PIT-NDPS Act, while five persons were arrested after narcotic substances were recovered from their possession in different districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Uttam Kumar, a resident of Mand village, was detained under Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PIT-NDPS) Act on the orders of competent authority in Udhampur district on Sunday, a police spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kumar, a notorious drug peddler, has been subsequently lodged in district jail, Bhaderwah, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The police also executed a detention warrant under PIT-NDPS Act against habitual drug peddler, Javid Hussain alias Palla, a resident of Nowshera area of Rajouri district on Saturday, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said despite involved in multiple narcotics-related cases, Hussain continued to engage in the illicit trafficking of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After completing all legal formalities, the detenu was lodged in the district jail, Rajouri, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said the police arrested a drug peddler, identified as Suraj Badyal of Kishtwar, after 6.43 grams of heroin was recovered from his possession at Tikri in Udhampur district, while another peddler Mushtafiz-ul-Rehman was nabbed with 6.30 grams of heroin from Darhal area of Rajouri district on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two more drug peddlers, Amir Gulzar Ganie and Mohd Zahid, were arrested after eight grams of heroin was recovered from a passenger vehicle in Vijaypur area of Samba district, the spokesman said, adding the vehicle and the contraband were also seized.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Kathua district, the spokesman said police arrested an inter-state narco smuggler and recovered 279 grams of heroin from his motorcycle during checking at Keerian area of Lakhanpur bordering Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The accused was identified as Sabir, a resident of Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh, who was coming from Punjab, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu, Aug 23: Two notorious drug peddlers were detained under the PIT-NDPS Act, while five persons were arrested after narcotic substances were recovered from their possession in different districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Sunday. &nbsp; Uttam Kumar, a resident of Mand village, was detained under Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28734,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28732\/revisions\/28734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}