Police
have
a ested
the
accused,
Ta iq
Ahmad
Sofi,
employed
with
wildlife
depa tme t
i
Ga de bal.
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police
o
Mo day
claimed
to
have
busted
a
plot
by
a
51-yea -old
govt
employee
to
get
his
fo me
love ’s
ewlywed
husba d
a ested
i
a
a cotics
case.
The
accused
allegedly
cou ie ed
illegal
d ugs
to
the
husba d
i
a
attempt
to
esume
his
affai
with
the
27-yea -old
woma .Police
have
a ested
the
accused,
Ta iq
Ahmad
Sofi,
employed
with
wildlife
depa tme t
i
Ga de bal.The
case
came
to
light
afte
police
i
Ga de bal
dist ict
eceived
i fo matio
about
a
suspected
d ug
co sig me t
bei g
se t
th ough
a
cou ie
se vice.
Police
i te cepted
the
pa cel
shipped
f om
Utta
P adesh’s
Ka pu
a d
deployed
a
s iffe
dog
to
exami e
it.“It
co tai ed
a ou d
4
kg
of
a
powde -like
substa ce
which,
o
FSL
exami atio ,
tested
positive
fo
cocai e,
havi g
huge
value
i
the
i te atio al
ma ket,”
police
said.Fou
packets,
each
co tai i g
80
g ams
of
what
police
desc ibed
as
“pu e
cha as”,
a d
st ips
of
suspected
psychot opic
tablets
we e
seized.The
co sig me t
was
add essed
to
the
woma ’s
husba d,
a
poult y
fa m
ow e ,
who
told
police
he
was
expecti g
poult y
feed
f om
a
pe so
who
had
co tacted
him
th ough
WhatsApp.
He
de ied
a y
k owledge
of
the
d ugs.
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Police
the
exami ed
the
husba d’s
backg ou d,
as
well
as
the
pho e
eco ds
of
the
ewlyweds,
who
ma ied
just
a
mo th
ago.
I vestigato s
said
the
woma ’s
pho e
eco ds
p ovided
the
fi st
majo
clue,
leadi g
them
to
Sofi,
who
had
a a ged
the
co sig me t
th ough
a
f ie d
ide tified
as
A eeb.Police
a e
i vestigati g
whethe
the
woma
was
pa t
of
the
plot.I vestigato s
a e
also
sca i g
A eeb’s
moveme ts
a d
possible
li ks
to
Saudi
A abia
afte
his
pho e
eco ds
showed
he
called
the
poult y
fa m
ow e
f om
that
cou t y.
Police
a e
also
t yi g
to
establish
how
the
d ugs
we e
p ocu ed
a d
dispatched
to
Ga de bal
th ough
the
cou ie .“We
a e
also
i vestigati g
whethe
the
d ugs
we e
o igi ally
p ocu ed
i
the
Valley
a d
the
dispatched
to
Ka pu ,
just
to
be
cou ie ed
back
to
the
poult y
fa m
ow e ,”
police
said.
