Jammu: In a significant breakthrough against a drug trafficking network, the Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) of Jammu and Kashmir Police has arrested the Delhi-based pharmaceutical company owner for his alleged role in drug trafficking in the Union territory, officials said on Friday.
The accused was identified as Jatish Babbar, a resident of South Delhi who owns a pharma company.
“He is involved in multiple narcotic drug and psychotropic substance cases,” a police spokesman said.
Babbar is a notorious drug trafficker who was named in three separate NDPS cases registered at the ANTF police station in Jammu, PTI reported.
Preliminary investigation revealed that Babbar was actively involved in the illegal procurement and supply of psychotropic substances, misusing his position as a pharma firm owner, the spokesman said.
“His role appears to be crucial in a larger interstate drug trafficking network. Further investigation is underway,” he added.
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In a separate case, the Delhi Police arrested the alleged mastermind of a spurious medicines manufacturing racket from Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station on December 16.
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