Srinagar, Oct 3 : Five alleged drug peddlers have been arrested and a huge consignment of contraband substances seized in Kashmir on Friday, police said.

Continuing its war against drugs, police arrested the drug peddlers from Anantnag, Kupwara, Budgam, and Pulwama districts, and recovered a huge consignment of narcotics from their possession, they said.

According to a spokesperson, police in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district received information that one Ghulam Nabi Bhat, a resident of Sehgund Saller, has hoarded a large quantity of narcotics in his house.

A police team raided the house, and 24,700 kg of ganja was seized while Bhat was arrested, he said.

In the Kupwara district of north Kashmir, police arrested a drug peddler identified as Tariq Sajad Khan, a resident of Keran, Kupwar

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