Jammu, June 15 -- Three shops belonging to a drug peddler and allegedly built on government land were demolished in a joint operation by police and civil administration in Jammu on Saturday, police said.

The action against Mohammad Sidiq alias Githa was taken under operation clean up after investigations revealed that he had illegally raised the property on the encroached government land and using ill-gotten money from the sale of drugs, Superintendent of Police (Jammu south) Ajay Sharma said.

He said Sidiq, a resident of Beli Charana in Nikki Tawi area, was recently booked in a case under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in Gandhi Nagar area.

This was the second such case registered against him as earlier a case w...