Agencies

Jammu, October 30:

The Excise Department foiled a bid to smuggle drugs in apple boxes from Kashmir to Punjab and impounded a truck with 120 kg of poppy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, officials said on Tuesday.

A team intercepted the Punjab-bound truck at Lakhanpur and recovered several boxes of apples with 120 kg poppy. Truck driver Rajinder Singh was arrested and a case registered.