Overview
- Police in Samba attached vehicles, land and froze bank accounts worth over Rs 1.46 crore under the NDPS Act after investigators tied them to drug proceeds.
- Srinagar’s Rainawari police attached a single-storey house and 11 marlas of land valued at about Rs 1.5 crore belonging to accused Bilal Ahmad Patoo under Section 68-F.
- In Udhampur, officers attached a residential property valued at roughly Rs 20 lakh that officials said Rafiq bought on state land using narcotics money.
- Reasi police attached a motorcycle owned by Ajay Singh of Katra, who officials described as a repeat offender with prior cases at the local station.
- Section 68-F allows provisional attachment of assets suspected to be bought with drug money, a step police say is meant to choke traffickers’ finances as cases proceed, and authorities urged the public to share tips.