Jammu, June 3 -- In a major breakthrough against interstate narcotics smuggling, the Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) of Jammu and Kashmir Police has successfully recovered around 4-kg of charas from a narcotic smuggler operating across state lines.

As per the official handout, acting on specific intelligence inputs, a team of ANTF led by SP Tanweer Ahmed Jeelani under the supervision of SSP Mohd Anwar-Ul-Haq, ANTF Jammu, intercepted a suspect who was attempting to transport the contraband from the Kashmir Valley using a motorcycle as a mode of concealment.

"The smuggler had devised a covert method of hiding the narcotics in compartments of the two-wheeler to evade detection," it read, and it said that, however, due to swift and coordinat...