A suspected drug peddler was arrested today along with 159 kg poppy straw in Kulgam district of south Kashmir, police said.
Rishi Kumar, a resident of Satwari in Jammu, was arrested after a police party intercepted his truck at Kulgam, 70 kms from here, and recovered the banned narcotic substance, a police spokesman said.
He said Kumar was booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
In a separate operation, police intercepted a vehicle at Chawalgam Bypass in the district and recovered 11 logs of Kail tree from it, the spokesman said.
Three persons travelling in the vehicle were arrested and a case under various sections of the Forest Act and Ranbir Penal Code was registered against them, he said.
