4 min learnSrinagarUp to date: Aug 11, 2026 03:09 PM IST
Earlier this month, J&Okay Police obtained a tip-off: A consignment of narcotics was being despatched to Ganderbal district.
The knowledge was vital given the police’s intensified crackdown on drug trafficking, which has recently seen suspected traffickers being booked below the Public Security Act (PSA), their properties seized, and, in some instances, even their homes demolished.
After intercepting the packet, police landed on the home of the meant recipient of the parcel: A humble poultry farmer who had received married just a few months in the past. He advised police that he was anticipating poultry feed within the parcel and had no thought concerning the narcotics.
An uncommon cellphone name
He did point out one other curious piece of knowledge, although. Earlier this 12 months, he had obtained a cellphone name from a quantity in Saudi Arabia, warning him towards continuing along with his marriage plan.
Police questioned his spouse, which led them to their perpetrator: A person referred to as Tariq Ahmad Sofi in Srinagar. A resident of Zainakote space, Sofi was the previous boyfriend of the poultry farmer’s spouse who had hatched the plan to get him arrested in a medication case, police stated. Sofi was arrested on August 9.
A police officer advised The Indian Specific that on August 8, police obtained a tip-off a few parcel containing medicine being couriered from outdoors Jammu and Kashmir. He stated the parcel was intercepted on the put up workplace in Ganderbal and opened in entrance of a Justice of the Peace. It contained a consignment of narcotics, together with 4 kilograms of cocaine, 80 grams of hashish and a few psychotropic medicine.
The parcel was couriered from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh – some 1,300 kms away.
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The farmer advised the police that he was tricked by the sender, who had contacted him by way of WhatsApp and promised to ship over samples of poultry feed. The farmer shared the cellphone variety of the sender to the investigators, who discovered that it was a Saudi Arabian cellphone quantity.
A police officer stated the farmer advised the investigators that he had obtained a name from an analogous quantity someday earlier, warning him towards marrying the lady. The revelation gave the investigation a brand new route.
Conspiracy angle
“It was then that we began to have a look at the conspiracy angle and the plot to border him,” he stated.
Accused Sofi has revealed that the sender from Kanpur, recognized as Areeb, was his buddy and had shipped the parcel at his insistence.
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“It was Sofi who first organized to ship the parcel by way of his buddy after which tipped off the police,” stated a senior police officer. “Since he was cautious, he didn’t straight give a tip-off to the police. As a substitute, he did it by way of another folks.”
Sofi has been booked below sections 8/20 and 21 of the NDPS Act.
Police stated although Sofi’s buddy Areeb is from Kanpur, he has been dwelling in Saudi Arabia for a while now.
Police are investigating how Areeb organized the medicine shipped to the farmer. A police officer stated they’re investigating the function of Areeb to seek out out if he was conscious of the plot.
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“We’re investigating if he (Sofi) despatched the parcel from right here and requested him to ship it to the Ganderbal tackle or if it was his buddy who organized the narcotics,” stated the officer. “We’re not certain whether or not the Kanpur man knew concerning the contents of the parcel or not.”
