Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday arrested two persons and recovered around one kilogram of heroin from their possession during a raid at a local hotel in Srinagar.
Sources said the Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) wing of the J&K Police raided a hotel in city centre Lal Chowk and recovered 998 grams of heroin from the possession of two persons.
The arrested persons were identified as Zameer Ahmed Mongryal and Sajad Ahmed, both residents of border town Uri in Baramulla.
Drug menace in Kashmir has increased manifold compared to the previous years, which was evident from the seizure of a huge quantity of narcotic substances and the number of arrests of drug peddlers in recent years.
Last year, the J&K Police had recovered 36.08 kilograms of pure heroin and 49.7 kilograms of brown sugar from different parts of the Valley.
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