Jammu: A key drug peddler, half of a bigger trans-border narco-terror module, escaped from the custody of the Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) in Jammu late on Sunday evening, prompting safety businesses to launch a search throughout the area.
The accused, recognized as Aquib Bashir of Kakapora in Pulwama district, was dubbed a prized catch by investigators after his arrest on September 3 from a passenger bus at Samba’s New Bus Stand. Officers had seized 522 grams of high-quality heroin price over ₹2 crore within the worldwide market from him.
Bashir slipped away in the course of the intervening evening of Sunday and Monday from the NCB headquarters in Narwal, an space dominated by vehicle restore workshops. Safety businesses instantly launched efforts to hint him, inserting key entry and exit factors underneath excessive alert, whereas police intensified automobile checks and frisking.
Officers are probing the circumstances surrounding his escape, with one officer candidly acknowledging it as a evident safety lapse.
Bashir operated as a vital provider for contraband smuggled from Pakistan via the Uri sector in Baramulla, in addition to through the Punjab border.
His arrest was a part of an intensive month-long NCB operation throughout Jammu division that uncovered two energetic provide routes exploited by traffickers to feed weak bastis (clusters) within the Jammu-Samba belt.
The broader crackdown resulted in 4 interceptions, a linked restoration in Punjab, the seizure of 6.920 kg of heroin, and the arrest of six people.
