Jammu, Aug 26 (PTI) A court in Samba in Jammu and Kashmir sentenced a man to two-month imprisonment in a narcotics seizure case on Saturday, a police spokesman said.

The court of additional special mobile magistrate in Samba also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the convict, Amandeep, a resident of Bari Brahmana.

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Amandeep, a drug peddler, was arrested by a police team during patrolling in Vijaypur on April 27, 2018. Fifty-three gram of charas was recovered from his possession, the spokesman said.

A case under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act was registered against him at Vijaypur police station.

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During the trial, the spokesman said, the magistrate found sufficient evidence to convict him.

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