Jammu Tawi: Jammu and Kashmir Police detained a notorious gangster under the stringent Public Safety Act in Kathua and arrested five drug peddlers in different districts of the Jammu division in the past 24 hours, police said on Sunday. Three cases, including two related to attempt to murder, were registered against him at police station Kathua in the recent past. The police prepared his dossier and submitted it to the Kathua district magistrate, who ordered his detention under the PSA, the spokesman said. Two narcotic smugglers, Sharat Singh and Mohd Makhan, were arrested during checking at Ghatti and Lakhanpur in Kathua district after recovery of six grams and seven grams of heroin from their possession, respectively, the spokesman said. All the five arrested peddlers were booked under the NDPS Act in the concerned police stations for further investigations, he said.