Archive · 1 Oct 2026
Srinagar Police Bust Alleged Interstate Drug Network, Eight Arrested
Srinagar Police say they uncovered a large drug network in downtown Srinagar.
Eight people have been arrested in connection with the case.
Police allege that the group brought medicines and drugs from outside Jammu and Kashmir.
They say the substances were then distributed in different parts of the Kashmir Valley.
Officers seized more than 219,000 tablets and capsules, along with liquid codeine and a heroin-like substance.
They also found cash, gold, weapons, vehicles, and expensive personal items.
Two other people named by police are still missing.
Investigators are checking whether the network had links to anti-national groups, but this part of the investigation is not yet proven.
Srinagar Police arrested eight people while investigating an alleged interstate narcotics network operating from downtown Srinagar.
Police said the network sourced banned medicines and narcotics outside Jammu and Kashmir and distributed them across the Valley.
Authorities reported seizing 219,425 medicinal tablets and capsules, about 3.830 kilograms of codeine-based liquid, and roughly 40 grams of a heroin-like substance.
Recoveries also included cash, gold, weapons, vehicles, luxury items, and an attached residential property; reported cash totals differed between ₹85.75 lakh and around ₹90 lakh.
Two suspects remain absconding, while investigators are examining possible links to anti-national elements, including Over Ground Workers.
- Who
- Srinagar Police, including SSP Sandeep Chakravarty, arrested eight alleged network members; two other suspects are absconding.
- What
- Police said they dismantled an alleged interstate drug-trafficking network and seized narcotics, medicines, cash, gold, weapons, vehicles, and other valuables.
- When
- The investigation was conducted in connection with FIR No. 135/2026; a specific date was not provided.
- Where
- The alleged network operated from downtown Srinagar, with searches also conducted in Chandigarh, Ambala, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh.
- Why
- Police allege that the network sourced banned medicines and narcotic substances from outside Jammu and Kashmir and supplied them across the Valley.
- Arrests
- Eight people arrested
- Absconding suspects
- Faizan Firdous Khanday, alias Farzan Puj, and Mohammad Shahwar Aleem
- Medicinal seizures
- 219,425 tablets and capsules
- Other alleged narcotics
- About 3.830 kg of codeine-based liquid and approximately 40 grams of a heroin-like substance
- Cash recovery
- Reported as approximately ₹85.75 lakh by police records and around ₹90 lakh by the SSP
- Frozen funds
- ₹1.07 crore in bank accounts
- Weapons
- .32-calibre pistol with two empty magazines and a dagger
- Property action
- A residential house belonging to Mohammad Waseem Zargar was attached