Uri: A village-level worker (VLW) of RDD (Rural Development department) was arrested with 10 kilograms of heroin worth crores of rupees in Uri area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, police said on Friday.
“During routine checking by a joint team of Police and army on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad highway, narcotics weighing 10.4 kilograms were seized from a vehicle and one person identified as Mohammad Zahid Geelani – son of Peer Hassan Din Geelani – resident of Basgran Uri was arrested,” a police official said.
“He works as VLW in RDD and is posted at BDO office Paranpeelan,” he said.
Police has registered a case and investigations are underway.
Preliminary investigations, he said, suggested that the recovered narcotics were heroin and it’s worth crores of rupees.
(GNS)
