Udhampur Police Strike Hard: Notorious Drug Peddler “Psycho,” Slapped with Section 111 BNS for Organized Crime

UDHAMPUR | February 26, 2026 — In a landmark legal escalation against the narcotics trade, Udhampur Police have invoked Section 111 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against Vikas Sharma, notoriously known as “Psycho,” classifying his repeated offenses as organized crime.

The move follows a high-stakes interception by the PP Tikri team, who stopped Sharma and his associate, Sandeep Singh, on a motorcycle traveling from Jammu. During a meticulous search, officers recovered 8.62 grams of heroin, triggering an immediate arrest.

However, rather than treating this as an isolated incident, investigators dug into Sharma’s criminal past, uncovering a persistent pattern of trafficking that includes at least four previous major drug-related FIRs since 2019.

By applying Section 111, authorities are now targeting the “organized” infrastructure behind his activities, which carries significantly harsher penalties than standard possession charges.

This strategic use of the new BNS provisions signals a “Zero Tolerance” shift by the Jammu & Kashmir Police to dismantle local distribution networks rather than just catching individual peddlers.

Senior officials noted that Vikas’s history—spanning multiple cases at Police Station Udhampur—qualified him for this severe classification, as his “continuing unlawful activity” poses a systematic threat to the region’s youth.

The invocation of Section 111 BNS acts as a legal hammer, intended to not only incarcerate habitual offenders for longer periods but also to freeze assets and break the financial chains of the drug trade.

As the investigation widens to identify his suppliers and regional buyers, this case stands as a warning that repeat offenders in the UT will now face the full, unyielding weight of India’s modernized criminal justice system.