Overview
- Samba Police, working with district officials, demolished 33 structures at Balole Khad in Bari Brahmana on Sunday.
- The operation, led by SSP Anuj Kumar, retrieved nearly 50 kanals of SIDCO industrial land valued at about Rs 60 crore.
- Officials fenced the site, installed floodlights, and handed the roughly 6.25 acres back to SIDCO to deter new encroachment.
- Police say the razed buildings had been used to store and supply heroin, with accused such as Mohammad Baru named in multiple FIRs and reported absconding under a January PSA warrant.
- Authorities cast the action as part of the Nasha Mukt Jammu and Kashmir campaign, pledging continued raids and surveillance to dismantle the wider drug network.