SRINAGAR, May 16 -- Police in Srinagar have attached properties worth 5.8 crore belonging to three alleged drug peddlers as part of an ongoing crackdown on narcotics trafficking in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday.

A team from the Khanyar police station attached three immovable properties along with a vehicle belonging to the accused under Section 68-F of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, a police spokesman said.

The action was part of the 100-day 'Nasha Mukt Jammu and Kashmir Abhiyan' launched by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on April 11 to curb drug trafficking and dismantle the financial networks of those involved in it, officials said.

The first property belonged to Nazir Ahmad Mir, alias Nazir...