Kaithal police freeze Rs 84 lakh assets of 5 drug traffickers

Jind: Kaithal police have frozen properties worth around Rs 84 lakh belonging to five habitual drug traffickers, officials said on Monday.Police said the action followed proceedings initiated under provisions that allow attachment of assets allegedly acquired through drug trafficking. The cases were sent to the competent authority and administrator under the ministry of finance, department of revenue, which ordered the freezing of the properties and barred all transactions linked to them.Superintendent of police Manpreet Singh Sudan said the action covered two separate cases.In the first, properties worth Rs 26 lakh linked to two brothers from Kalayat were frozen. Police said both had multiple cases registered against them under the NDPS Act, involving recovery of cannabis and heroin over the years. The attached assets include houses, plots, motorcycles and bank accounts, some of them registered in the names of family members.In the second case, assets worth around Rs 58.4 lakh linked to three members of a family from Kharka village were frozen. Police said the three had faced multiple NDPS cases involving heroin and smack. The attached assets include a house, plots, a motorcycle, an Innova car, and gold and silver jewellery.Police said all such cases are documented in detail and sent to the competent authority, which issues notices asking the accused to explain the legal source of the assets. If no satisfactory proof is provided, the property can be frozen or seized.