SRINAGAR, May 6: An “illegally constructed” house belonging to a drug peddler was demolished on Wednesday here in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital, police said.
The demolition was made in the Palpora Noorbagh area as part of the police’s Nasha Mukt Jammu & Kashmir Abhiyaan, a police spokesperson said.
He said the accused, Hilal Ahmad Sheikh, a resident of Zahidpora Hawal, at present, Pamposh Colony, Palpora Noorbagh, had encroached upon the government land there.
Sheikh has been named in multiple NDPS cases and accused of erecting the razed structure with crime proceeds, the spokesperson said.
An investigation revealed that Sheikh’s close associates and family members, too, were named in multiple drug-related cases across the valley, he said.
