Two criminals nabbed in Jammu region

Jammu: Two notorious criminal were arrested from Samba and Rajouri districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said here on Thursday.

"In order to curtail the activities of hardcore criminals and bovine smugglers, notorious criminal Mohmmad Aslam of Samba district has been arrested under Public Safety Act (PSA)," a police officer said on Thursday.

He was lodged at Sub Jail Hiranagar in Kathua district.

Aslam was involved in various cases of?robbery, theft, attempt to murder, rioting etc., in Samba and adjoining districts, the officer said.

The modus operandi of the accused was to sell the?robbed property to the scrap dealers besides selling the bovines to the smugglers, he said.

In another incident, an absconder Kala Khan was arrested in Kalakote belt of Rajouri district, the Officer said.

He was absconding in a theft case from past four years, police said.