ANTF freezes 5 bank accounts in Kashmir

Anti Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) today said they have frozen five bank accounts of alleged drug dealers in Kashmir.

“We have frozen five such bank accounts which were directly linked with the drug cartels of Kashmir with its head in Anantnag District’s Bijbehara. The accounts were also in his family members name and we have proved it that the money was earned out of selling narcotics,” SP Vinay Kumar said. The alleged drug cartel head has been identified as Masood Ahmed Dar, son of Abdul Rahim Dar, resident of Bijbehara, Anantnag.

   

He said that the main distributors of the cartel were in the custody of ANTF. The arrested persons have been identified as Salman Khan and Amit Sexena from Delhi and Jahangir Ahmed from Kashmir.

The SP said it was the first time that accounts have been frozen under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators Act and Forfeiture of Property Act 1976.

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