SRINAGAR: Two drug-peddlers were arrested within an hour or a so after they allegedly escaped from police custody in Ajas Sumbal area of north-Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Saturday, official sources said. They said two drug peddlers identified as Mubashir Ahmad Lone, a resident of Lone Mohalla Ajas, and Showkat Ahmad Shiekh, a resident of Rather Mohalla Ajas, were arrested by a party during a naka checking at Bazipora Ajas today itself. The duo was caught with a ‘large quantity of Charas hidden in maize leaves’ and accordingly a case vide FIR number 60/2021 under relevant sections of NDPS Act was registered in police station Sumbal and further investigations taken up, they told Global News Service GNS.