India, Aug. 10 -- Three suspected drug peddlers, including a 17-year-old boy, were apprehended along with heroin in the Samba and Kathua districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Monday, August 10.

The teenager was intercepted late Sunday, August 9, evening while travelling on a motorcycle from Balole Khad towards JDA Colony in the Bari Brahmana area of Samba, a police spokesman said.

During checking, police recovered 3.36 grams of heroin from his possession and seized the contraband along with the motorcycle, the spokesman said.

A case under various sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act was registered against the teenager, who was produced before the competent authority and sent to the Observation ...