Srinagar, Sept. 9 -- J&K Police's State Investigation Agency (SIA) has arrested a proclaimed offender who was accused in 2022 in a narco-terror case.
SIA today said Abdul Rashid Bhat of Padgampora, Awantipora, Pulwama, had been evading arrest for over two years and had been declared a proclaimed offender by a court in connection with the 2022 FIR of the Agency.
He is the third absconder to be arrested in the case so far.
According to SIA, his arrest is a major blow to the Lashkar-e-Taiba-backed narco-terror module, which was involved in smuggling narcotics and arms through dead drop consignments along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Karnah sector of Kupwara district.
"Sale proceeds of these narcotic substances were later channelized to...