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Pakistani driver nabbed for carrying narcotics, trade across LoC suspended

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Police have arrested a Pakistani truck driver along with two of his local contacts from Uri district of Jammu and Kashmir for carrying narcotics, resulting in suspension of trade across the Line of Control (LoC).

“The driver – Anayat Hussain, a resident of Muzaffarabad, has been arrested following the recovery of narcotics substance on Friday,” said Suhail Mir, Superintendent of Police, Baramulla on Sunday.

Mir further said the local trader Zahoor Ahmad Malla, who was to receive the consignment, has also been taken into custody.

“A case under Section 8/21 of NDPS Act has been registered against the duo and the investigations are on,” he said, adding that the seized materials has been sent to Forensic Science Laboratory for a detailed examination.

The customs official and J&K Police personnel in Uri district recovered 305 packets of suspected drugs from an orange-ladden truck coming from PoK on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Road, during a routine check on Friday evening.

Following this, the driver and two of his local contacts, for whom the consignment was meant, were arrested.

Meanwhile, all the 22 vehicles which came from PoK are still at Salamabad trade facilitation centre in Uri while the 29 trucks from Indian side are held up in Chakoti on other side of the LoC.

However, official sources said a meeting of trade officials from the two sides was held on Friday evening following the recovery of the contraband substance.

It was not clear as to what transpired at the meeting but the developments so far indicate that the trade has hit a deadlock similar to the one last year.

In January last year, the authorities had seized drugs worth nearly Rs. 100 crore from a truck coming from PoK, which led to brief suspension of cross-Line of Control trade after police arrested the Pakistani driver of the vehicle.

The PoK officials did not allow the Indian trucks and the drivers to return till the accused PoK driver was released on bail by a local court and returned home.

In August 2013, police recovered cocaine worth Rs. 10 crore from a truck, plying on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route, at Sheeri in Uri sector.

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