NCB Re-Arrests Drug Peddler Who Escaped Custody in Jammu

Jammu, Sept 10: The Jammu unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau has re-arrested a drug peddler who had escaped from its custody three days ago, an official said on Thursday.

The accused was arrested in Punjab’s Jalandhar in a coordinated operation by the agency, J-K Police and Punjab Police, an NCB spokesperson said.

Aqib Bashir, a resident of Kakapora in Pulwama district, escaped from NCB’s custody in Narwal on the intervening night of September 6-7.

The NCB had earlier arrested him with 522 grams of heroin from a passenger bus in Samba district on September 3

“The NCB, in close coordination with Jammu and Kashmir Police and Punjab Police, has successfully traced and re-arrested Bashir, a notorious drug trafficker who had fled from the NCB‘s custody in Jammu,” the spokesman said.

After fleeing from Jammu, he said the accused reached Jalandhar via Pathankot.

“He initially hid in a forest area near the Narwal fruit mandi. To conceal his identity, he clean-shaved, changed his clothes and altered his appearance,” he said.

The accused used his contacts in Jalandhar to seek shelter and evade the search teams.

“Intelligence inputs and field efforts helped the agencies track his location. Bashir was arrested when he was preparing to move towards Delhi or another state,” the spokesman said.

Bashir’s arrest was part of a month-long operation by the NCB in the Jammu division, which exposed two distinct routes used by narcotic smugglers to push heroin into J-K from Pakistan through the Uri sector and indirectly via Punjab.

In four interceptions carried out over the past month, along with a linked recovery in Punjab, the NCB has seized 6.920 kg of heroin and arrested six accused.

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