SRINAGAR: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested four persons from Jammu and Kashmir allegedly involved in smuggling of heroin and other narcotic drugs worth million of rupees from across the Line of Control (LoC).
The money obtained through the sale of the contraband locally and in other parts of the country would be transferred to a major militant outfit to help it in carrying out “terrorist activities” in the Valley, the agency claimed.
A statement issued by the NIA here said that the case of ”narco-terrorism’ was registered by it in June last year after the J&K police seized 21 kilograms of heroin and cash amount of Indian Rs.1,35,89,850 from the members of a drug syndicate operating in the Union Territory.
The accused who were formally arrested by the agency in Srinagar have been identified as Altaf Ahmed Shah, Showkat Ahmad Parray, Mudasir Ahmad Dar and Amin Allaie alias Hilal Mir-all residents of Kashmir Valley.
The NIA said that the…