A drug smuggler hit by bullet in the leg in Haridwar in a cross firing with police and arrested

In Uttarakhand the holy town Haridwar has allegedly become a conduit for the drug dealers to supply them to various parts of Uttarakhand especially in the interior townships thus spreading the drug menace among the young population who are already frustrated in view of the increasing unemployment. Few months ago a local journalist cum You tuber who had exposed a liquor smuggler in Rishikesh was threaded badly with cricket bat hitting him badly on his head and making him injured in the leg finally admitted in Rishikesh AIIMS where the Haridwar MP Trivendra Singh Rawat and several journalist had met him and demanded stringent action against the culprits who were arrested and put behind bar after the media war against the liquor mafia. Yesterday in Haridwar there was an exchange of gun fire between the police and the drug dealers resulting in one of the members of the cartel having been injured in the leg by the police bullet in exchange of cross firing. According to the latest news as per the statement of the senior superintendent of police Parminder Singh Dobhal a police picket at Subhashgarh Budhahedi under the jurisdiction of Pathri Police station area led by the local SHO was doing the checking when they saw a white car approaching them. The police gave the car a signal asking them to wait for the checking but the occupants of the car fired at them with an indigenous local pistol ( Katta). The police also retaliated with counter pistol during and in the incessant cross firing in Thursday one of the members of the cartel in the car firing at police gog injured in the leg. The police caught him and took him to the hospital for treatment under strict vigil.

The senior police officers reached the hospital lateron. In checking the police found more than nine hundred drug pills , a tamancha and few bullets. The injured drug smuggler sling with others was coming to deliver these drug capsules to his source for further distribution in the holy township of Haridwar. The police have registered the case under the various sections of the Drugs and psychotropic Substances act which has the provision of stringent punishment of seven years and even more. It may be recalled that the Uttarakhand government generated maximum revenue from the sale of liquor from different outlets in the Himalayan state . During the nine months in 2014 from April to January the state government generated two hundred crores of rupees more than previous year accomplishing a target of Rs.3,353 crores.