Jammu Tawi, May 22 -- Police on Thursday attached properties worth approximately Rs 7 crore belonging to a detained drug peddler in Kathua district, officials said.
The move comes amid police's intensified campaign against drug trafficking networks and their financial infrastructure.
The attached properties comprises 6 kanal and 18 marlas of land and a single-storey residential house, having a plinth area of 2,107 square feet, situated at Chak Sheikha area, they said
The properties belong to Harpaul Singh, alias Balochi, a resident of Kathua, who is detained under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988, officials said.
Investigators said the properties were prima facie, acquired through...