Five held in Anantnag as police seize 1.57 kg of charas and other drugs
Anantnag Police arrested five men in four anti-drug operations at Srigufwara, Mattan, Malakhnag and Sangam, recovering 1.570 kg of charas powder, seven grams of charas, 30.4 grams of brown sugar and 13 grams of heroin. Police registered cases under the NDPS Act and said investigations were continuing.
🇮🇳 Anantnag district, Jammu and Kashmir · India
- Arrested
- 5
- Cannabis
- 1.6 kg
At Srigufwara, a police team arrested Shabir Ahmad Deedad of Lehandajan,
Pahalgam.[1][2] He was carrying 1.570 kg of charas powder.[1][2] FIR No. 109/2026
was registered.[3][2] FIR No. 125/2026 was registered.[3][2]
At Malakhnag, police arrested Fardin Ahmad Khan, alias Sameer Khan, of Qazi
Mohalla, Anantnag, with 13 grams of heroin.[3][2] A police post team at Sangam
arrested Owais Hassan Allaie of Niana, GB Khalil, with seven grams of charas.[3][2] Cases were registered at the respective police stations and investigations
were under way, police said.[3]
At Mattan, police arrested Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat and Sabgatullah Ganie, both of Ganipora, Mattan, and recovered 30.4 grams of brown sugar from them.[2] Police said their operations against drug trafficking would continue and reiterated their commitment to dismantling the network involved in the illegal trade across the district.[2]
Sources
- अनंतनाग में नशे के खिलाफ पुलिस का बड़ा अभियान, कहीं चरस तो कहीं हेरोइन और ब्राउन शुगर बरामद; 5 गिरफ्तार. Dainik Jagran, 30 October 2026. In Hindi.
- Five Alleged Drug Peddlers Arrested in Separate Operations in Anantnag. Kashmir Life, 30 October 2026.
- Six drug peddlers arrested in Anantnag, Awantipora; contraband recovered. KIMS Kashmir, 30 October 2026.
Open questions the AI reported
- The police post and the news reports give no separate date for the four operations; 30 October 2026 is the date of the Anantnag Police statement and the reports.
- The 1.577 kg cannabis figure is the sum of 1.570 kg of charas powder and seven grams of charas; no combined total was published.
- The 30.4 grams of brown sugar and 13 grams of heroin are not cannabis and are excluded from kg_seized.
- KIMS and Kashmir Images headlined six arrests because they added a separate Awantipora operation at Pinglish, Tral; that case is not part of this Anantnag event.
- No captioned photograph of the arrests or the seized contraband was published; the Jagran page uses a file photo and the four images on the police post are uncaptioned, so no media entry is included.
- No ages, court appearances, bail decisions or convictions were reported.
- The Hindi report spells the first suspect Shabbir Ahmad Didar; the English reports give Shabir Ahmad Deedad.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Anantnag Police: Anantnag Police said five alleged drug peddlers had been arrested in four operations at Srigufwara, Mattan, Malakhnag and Sangam, with charas, heroin and brown sugar recovered.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Anantnag Police: Charas, a cannabis resin, accounted for 1.570 kg of charas powder and seven grams of charas.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Anantnag Police: The other seizures were 30.4 grams of brown sugar and 13 grams of heroin, and police said cases were registered under the NDPS Act.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in KIMS Kashmir: In Mattan, police arrested Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat and Sabgatullah Ganie of Ganipora and recovered 30.4 grams of brown sugar.