Ramban, December 05: Today, lady drug peddler from valley has been arrested by Banihal Police along with a consignment of 600 grams of Charas, from near Banihal Railway station.
It’s pertinent to mention here that Police had information of some female peddler from across the JT involved in the business of selling narcotics to the youth of this side and since then nakas at different places along with lady police were laid to nab her. But she kept on changing the modus operandi.
Today, on a specific information, a special team of Police headed by SHO Banihal Insp Aijaz Ahmed Wani remained in civvis at a strategic location near the Railway station. As soon as she deboarded the train and was on way to her next destination, she was apprehended along the the quantity of the psychotropic substance as mentioned above which was kept in a polythene bag she was carrying. The drug peddler has been identified as Halima Begum W/O Ab Rashid Dar R/O Wandon, Zainpora Shopian.
The whole effort took place under the supervision of Sajjad Sarwar SDPO Banihal, Sanjay Parihar Addl SP Ramban and overall supervision of Ms. Anita Sharma SSP Ramban.