3 drug peddlers taken into preventive custody in J-K

Three alleged drug peddlers were today taken into preventive custody in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, a police spokesman said.

Kishore Sharma, Mukesh Kumar and Hans Raj have been taken into preventive custody on the orders of executive magistrate Manjakote, he said.

Sharma is a resident of Nowshera in Rajouri and the other two belong to Kathua district, he added.

The trio were involved in drug peddling and were lodged in district jail Dhangri Rajouri, the spokesman said.