LoC Trade: 19 persons facing smuggling charges
Jammu, Feb 22: At least 19 persons have been booked for illegally smuggling contrabands from across the LoC using the trade route started between the divided parts of Kashmir in 2005. Police has registered six cases in this regard, the government told the Legislative Assembly on Thursday.
In his written response to a question by BJPs Chaman Lal Gupta the Government said three cases were registered in 2012 and two more cases have been registered in the first two months of this year. “Four cases are under investigation and police has presented challan in two cases,” the reply said. Giving break up the reply said in 2009 five person were booked for carrying out subervise activities like transaction of hawala money and Rs 7,85,000 were recovered from their possession.
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