Three people were arrested and 310 kilograms of poppy seized in separate incidents here on Saturday, police said. In the first incident, a Maruti Alto car was intercepted by police at Suketar. Two bags of poppy husk weighing approximately 30 kilograms were found inside the vehicle during a search, they said.

The car was seized and the driver, identified as Mohd Shafi Mir, and his associate Fayaz Ahmed, both residents of Pahalgam, were taken into custody, they said. In another incident, a party of Udhampur police recovered 279 kilograms of poppy from a truck intercepted at Zero Morh in Chenani following a tip-off, officials said.