The Jammu and Kashmir Police have registered 481 First Information Reports (FIRs) and arrested 518 drug peddlers in the first 22 days of the ongoing 100-day Nasha Mukt J&K Abhiyan, which is being directly overseen by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha.
Besides registering cases and making arrests, the administration has seized 22 properties, while several structures built using proceeds from the drug trade have been demolished in both Jammu and the Kashmir Valley.
Drugs worth crores of rupees, along with other movable assets, have also been seized during the ongoing anti-drug campaign. Additionally, more than 300 driving licences and vehicle registrations have been cancelled as part of the drive, officials said on Tuesday.
The 100-day anti-drug campaign is being carried out across the Union Territory through sustained awareness programmes and padyatras led by LG Manoj Sinha himself. On Sunday, Sinha kicked off a mega padyatra in Srinagar, which he said would continue across various districts in the coming days.
Speaking after the padyatra, LG Sinha described the campaign as a “people’s movement” and called for collective efforts to build a Jammu and Kashmir “where no child is lost to drugs and no family is broken by addiction”.
Officials said the effectiveness of the campaign can be gauged from the fact that the Jammu and Kashmir Police have identified 2,898 drug peddlers and 52 kingpins to intensify action against the broader drug trafficking nexus during the remaining 78 days of the campaign.
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