J&K: 66.5 kgs of heroin, brown sugar seized from truck on LoC

In one of the biggest drug hauls in Kashmir, police today seized over 66 kgs of heroin and brown sugar, worth over Rs 300 crore, from a truck coming from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir at the trade facilitation centre in the town of Uri on the LoC, police said.

The quantity of the consignment has been revised to 66.5 kgs, worth more than Rs 300 crore, after initial estimates had pegged it at 40 kgs, valued at Rs 200 crore.

"So far, around 40 kilograms of narcotics have been recovered from a truck coming from PoK for the cross-LoC trade at Salamabad," Senior Superintendent of Police, Baramulla, Imtiyaz Hussain earlier told

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