Police catching big fishes instead of small peddlers : DGP
Himachal Pradesh Police Chief Sanjay Kundu stated on the International Day
againist the Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking that state police is catching the big fish instead of small
peddlers to check the menace of drug in the state.
Addressing International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking event held at Raj Bhavan
on Saturday organized by state police DGP Mr Kundu said that a multi-pronged strategy was
required to be implemented to effectively tackle this teething issue and state police is catching the
big fish instead of small peddlers so that it can be checked at the source”, said DGP.
As many as 2126 cases have been registered under relevant sections of the NDPS Act
and 2909 persons have been arrested during the period between 1st January 2020 to 30 April
2021, Mr Kundu informed.
During the same period, 682.72Kgs of Charas, 15.88 Kgs of Heroin, 50.33 Kgs of Opium ,
4805.91 Kgs of poppy husk,376.91 kg of Ganja , 128330 numbers of synthetic tablets and 52194 numbers of capsules among other contrabands have been seized by Himachal Pradesh Police, he added.
To reduce supply of contrabands, illicit cultivation of 12,52,455 cannabis plants in 7917 bighas and 2,66,353
poppy plants in 52 bighas have been detected by a massive integrated intelligence operation and destroyed during the same period,
he said.
He said that recently, during the corona lockdown, Police succeeded in finding 66 bighas of land
under illicit cultivation of 15 lakh poppy plants in a remote area of Sub Tehsil Tikken, Padhar, Mandi
District in Chauhar Valley.
He informed that since January 2020 till April 2021, the State Police have succeeded in attaching
properties worth Rs 11.37 Crores in 19 cases.
DGP said that interstate coordination was much better today than before and as a result important information
regarding drug peddlers could easily be made available. He added that they were trying to wipe out the linkage
of narco terrorism.
Himachal Pradesh Governor who presided over the event said that All India Institute of Medical Sciences
(AIIMS) study revealed that 14.6 per cent of the people aged between 10-75 years were current users
of alcohol, i.e. around 16 crore people.
About 5.2 p;c i.e. more than 5.7 crore people were estimated to be affected by harmful or
alcohol-dependent use which means every third wine user in India needed help with alcohol-related
problems and this way we could understand how serious the situation was. He appreciated the efforts
and hardwork of the police officials in dealing with drug menace.
Guv said that state known as Dev Bhoomi and its culture, lifestyle and ideology is very rich but it is
unofortunate thate that problem of drug abuse has cropped ups severely if donot check immediaitely the situation
may become worse then the days to come . He stressed the need to use social media to control the drug abuse.
