Jammu, Sept. 10 -- A drug trafficker, who escaped from the custody of the Jammu Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), has been caught in the neighbouring state of Punjab.
The NCB officials, in a statement issued here on Thursday, said that the NCB, in close coordination with the Jammu and Kashmir Police and Punjab Police, had successfully traced and apprehended Aqib Bashir, a resident of Kakaporea, Pulwama district, Kashmir, a notorious drug trafficker who had fled from NCB custody in Jammu.
"A three-day sustained search and tracking operation across J&K and Punjab, along with prompt coordination and intelligence sharing between the J&K Police, Punjab Police and NCB, and strong coordination between Central and State/UT agencies, helped in catch...