Srinagar, March 16 Police on Monday seized assets worth crores belonging to an alleged drug peddler in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
Police seized four immovable properties belonging to "notorious drug peddler" Mukhtar Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Rakh e Lajoora, in connection with a First Information Report (FIR) registered under sections 8/15 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act at the Pulwama police station, officials said.
They said the seized properties include a two-story residential house, a shopping complex, a laundry center, and another commercial structure, built on different plots of land in Rakh e Lajoora (Kunjipora) in Pulwama.
The properties were identified as illegally acquired assets generated through drug trafficking and seized under Section 68-F(1) of the NDPS Act, officials added.