Kulgam, April 10 -- Kulgam Police on Friday claimed to have arrested five drug peddlers, busted a forward-backward supply chain, and sealed a medical shop for violating norms on sale of Schedule H medicines.

A police spokesman said that during naka checking at Furrah New Bypass, a patrol party from Police Post Mir Bazar apprehended a suspect who tried to flee. Recoveries from him included 110 grams of charas powder-like substance, 2 grams of heroin-like substance and Rs 22,000 in cash. The accused was identified as Danish Khurshid, a resident of Redwani, Qoimoh. An FIR was registered at Qazigund police station.

In a separate operation on April 8, police at Akhran nabbed another individual and recovered 63.31 grams of charas and 2.03 gra...