Jammu, Oct. 21 -- In a major breakthrough, Jammu and Kashmir Police have recovered a commercial quantity of narcotics comprising heroin and opium from the border village of Talhar in the R S Pura area under Operation Sanjeevani, with a preliminary investigation pointing to a suspected cross-border narcotics smuggling network involving drones.

A police spokesman said that 804 grams of heroin and 1.114-kg opium, has been recovered from the village Talhar area of Sector Arnia in R S Pura.

The case, he said that originated on October 20, when Police Station R.S. Pura received information regarding the alleged consumption of narcotics by Sunny Kumar (26), a resident of Kotli Mirdian in Suchetgarh tehsil of Jammu district, near a ditch in his v...