Jammu, May 22 -- Police on Thursday attached immovable properties worth approximately Rs.7 crore belonging to a detained drug peddler in Kathua district, officials said.

The attached properties comprises 6 kanal 18 marlas of land and a single-storey residential house with a basement, they said.

The move comes amid intensified campaign against drug trafficking networks and their financial infrastructure in Jammu and Kashmir.

The property belonged to a notorious drug peddler Harpaul Singh, alias Balochi, of Kathua, who has been lodged in jail under PIT-NDPS (Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988).

The entire proceeding was conducted under the directions of Kathua senior superintendent of p...