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| Five held alongwith with fake currency, heroin in Poonch | | | Early Times Report
Poonch, Feb 24: Continuing its efforts against to neutralize the sleeper and active cells of anti national/ social elements, Poonch police made a major achievement by busting a major network of cross border smugglers and couriers of counterfeit Indian currency and drugs with arrest of five persons alongwith fake currency and heroin in bordering Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
"The Special Operation Group yesterday recovered fake currency worth Rs 1.61 lakh and one-kg heroin from six inter- state smugglers," police sources here today said.
Sources said, "On specific inputs developed by the police, the Poonch Police launched a operation under the supervision of SSP , Poonch and was carried out by Sheezan Bhat, Deputy SP (operation) and Surinder K Choudhry Deputy SP (SDPO) Mendher."
They said that the special team of SOG raided in Mendhar area on specific information and arrested five persons and recovered fake currency and heroin worth Rs one crore in international market.
The accused have been identified namely as Mushtaq Ahmed s/o Khan Mohd , Abdul Rehaman s/o Mohd Sadiq both r/o Deri Dabsi, Nissar Ahmed s/o Mohd Rafiq r/o Balnoi, Mohd Imran s/o Mohd Itfak Khan r/o Uchad and Amit Kumar s/o Ashok Gupta r/o Ari.
''The fake currency was worth Rs 1.61 lakh in the denomination of Rs 500 currency notes," they added.
''The matter is being investigated and more arrests in this case cannot be ruled out,'' they added.
"All the accused excluding Amit are residents of villages which falls between Fence and Line of Control (border bowl) and are part of Over Ground Worker (OGW)/ network and members of sleeper cells of anti-national forces, sources said.
Sr Superintendent of Police (SSP), Poonch J S Johar, when contacted said, "Busting of the network has gave a major setback to the OGWs and sleeper cell network active in the border district, especially in Mendher who were promoting the narco-terrorism and were trying to stabilize the country's economy by pumping high quality counterfeit currency notes into Indian markets" said.
Meanwhile reliable sources said that under the surveillance of Special Operation Group (SOG) led by Sheezan Bhat,DySp for the last one month have launched massive hunt to nab accused namely Younis, Parveen , Shabir and Mehmood and all were trapped at village Mankot where all were gathered for the distribution of the consignment..
Police have registered a case FIR No17/2015 under sections 489-B & C RPC , 8-18-20-21-22-23-29 NDPS act and 15-17-39-40 Unlawful Activities (ULA) against all the accused and have started further investigation. |
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