Acting on a tip-off, Sushant Nayak, the alleged kingpin of a narcotic gang from Odisha was arrested yesterday at a check post in Transport Nagar Narwal area, a police spokesperson said.
11 kgs of cannabis with street value over Rs 9 lakh was recovered from the accused, he claimed.
During interrogation, the accused said that he had purchased narcotics from Chhattisgarh and was supposed to hand them over to the drug peddlers in Jammu, the spokesperson said.