Commendable job by Sahaspur police station team nabbing drug peddler in Dehradun
The Uttarakhand police of Sahaspur Police station has achieved a huge success by arresting a drug smuggler with 425 grams of heroine costing exorbitantly in international market allegedly having international connections with drug cartels.
According to the latest news on Wednesday the the Sahaspur police by arresting this main drug peddler would be able to reach to his other connections to unearth more contraband of heroine being sold further in other parts of Uttarakhand. As per the news reports the culprit namely Rafiq son of Vakil under the jurisdiction of Kurtara police station, Fatehganj in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh is being interrogated and will be produced in the court to seek his remand.
This recovery of heroine costing nearly a crore in international market alongwith the drug peddler has indeed sensitised people of Dehradun as the hilly state is already considered to be a safe haven for outside hardened criminals coming here to seek refuge, taking advantage of the peace loving people of Uttarakhand, considered to be the land of abode of Gods with four historic religious destinations popular globally enticing good number of pilgrims n tourists every year.
The government of Uttarakhand and the police department should concentrate its tantacles on these drug peddlers active clandestinely in Dehradun and other towns of Uttarakhand before it is too late as Punjab which had earlier been infamous for drugs infusion among its populace, including in the villages destroying large number of families.
A Bollywood film UDTA PUNJAB was made on the drugs prevalence in Punjab highlighting the drug menace destroying the lives of younger generation in addition to already prevalent liquor consumption spoiling countless families.
The stringent NDPS act is applicable against those caught in the illegal drugs trade, smuggling and peddling with minimum jail of rigorous one year for possession of small quantity, two years for more and ten years rigorous imprisonment for possessing commercial quantity contravening the act with maximum punishment of rigorous, twenty years for being caught with large commercial quantity of drugs.
The Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act came into effect in November 1985 after being passed from both houses of parliament getting the then president Gyani Zail Singh’s consent.
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