SIA apprehends man evading arrest for two years
Srinagar: The State Investigation Agency Kashmir on Wednesday arrested an accused who was evading arrest past two years in connection with a narco-terror case, a spokesman of the organisation said.
The SIA Kashmir said that they have achieved a major success in apprehending a proclaimed offender Abdul Rashid Mir of Amargarh, Sopore who was at large for the last two years.
The accused is a part of cross border narco-terror module operating in the valley. Narcotics and small arms were smuggled across the border by terror operatives of LeT into Sopore town and thereafter peddled throughout the valley among the youth, he said
During the course of investigation of this case (FIR 19/2022), 8 members of the narco-terror module have been arrested by SIA, Kashmir so far.
The arrest of Abdul Rashid Mir is a major jolt to the nacro-terror operatives across the border who push the youth to drugs besides using the proceeds to fuel terrorism in the UT, the spokesman said.
