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3700 bottles of Codeine seized, Two smugglers arrested

October 21

Border division of Kathua Police in a joint operation with Police Component Jammu today in decisive action busted inter state drug racket, seized 3700 bottles of Codeine Phosphate under brand name Maxcoff-T.

Acting on a specific information joint team of  Police Station, Hiranagar and Police component Jammu established checkpoint at National Highway near  Londi Morh Hiranagar.

During checking Police team seized a truck bearing registration number JK18-0065  and recovered 31 boxes containing 3700 bottles in total of banned drug CODEINE PHOSPHATE under brand name MAXCOFF – T in illegal possession of  two narco smugglers namely Showket Ali S/o Sadiq Mohd  R/o Talore Samba and Ather Din S/o Lal Hussain R/o Rakh Sarkar Plai Hiranagar.

Both the accused were transporting these bottles from Delhi to Kashmir.

Police registered  a case FIR no 146/2018 U/s  8/21/22 NDPS Act against the accused and  investigation taken up.