The Jammu and Kashmir’s State Investigation Agency (SIA) Saturday claimed to have arrested the kingpin of a narco-terror module from Mumbai airport — a development that investigators say marks a major breakthrough “in the fight against the cross-border narco-terror network”.

According to the police, Mohammad Arshad alias Asif, from Poonch’s Degwar Terwan village, operated from Saudi Arabia and had been evading capture since 2023.

Officials said a case was registered in May 2023 following credible information about a narco-terror module operating in the Pir Panjal region. During a joint Police-Army search operation on the intervening night of May 30-31, 2023, an exchange of fire broke out between terrorists and the search team.

Four terrorists were apprehended and a huge cache of arms, a

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