Chandigarh-: Persevering with the battle towards medicine “Yudh Nashian Virudh” waged by CM Bhagwant Singh Mann to eradicate drug menace from state consecutively for the 261st day, Punjab Police performed raids at 313 areas on Monday resulting in the arrest of 68 drug smugglers after registration of 57 first data stories (FIRs) throughout the state. With this, the variety of whole drug smugglers arrested has reached to 36,969 in 261 days.
The raids have resulted in restoration of two.2 kg heroin, 500 grams opium, 11 kg poppy husk, 2168 intoxicant tablets and Rs 1.88 lakhs drug cash from the possession of arrested drug smugglers.
Notably, CM has requested the Commissioners of Police, Deputy Commissioners and Senior Superintendent of Police to make Punjab drug free state. The Punjab authorities has additionally constituted a 5-member Cupboard Sub Committee led by Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema to watch the battle towards medicine.
Over 120 Police groups, comprising over 1000 police personnel, below the supervision of 75 gazetted officers have performed 313 raids throughout the state. Police groups have additionally checked as many as 335 suspicious individuals throughout the day-long operation.
The state authorities has enforced a three-pronged technique— Enforcement, Deaddiction and Prevention (EDP)— to eradicate medicine from the state, the Punjab Police as a part of ‘De-addiction’ has satisfied 23 individuals to bear de-addiction and rehabilitation therapy immediately.
