Punjab Congress main Amrinder Singh Raja Warring connected Monday said the cultivation of poppy should beryllium allowed successful the authorities arsenic its depletion was little harmful than synthetic drugs.
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Reacting to it, Punjab Finance Harpal Cheema sought a dope trial of the Congress and Akali leaders.
Warring, portion telling asking Cheema not to politicise the issue, said, “While I invited Cheema’s suggestion, fto maine inquire wherefore to behaviour dope tests lone connected Akali and Congress leaders, wherefore not connected AAP leaders also?”
He said cause addiction was a world and ending it was a challenging task.
“Merely registering cases oregon demolishing a fewer houses of petty peddlers was not going to lick the problem,” helium said.
Warring said, according to media reports, astatine slightest 8 to 9 radical had died owed to cause overdose aft May 31, the deadline acceptable by the Punjab authorities to extremity the cause occupation successful the state.
9,693 cause cases successful 100 days
The Punjab Police person registered 9,693 FIRs and arrested 16,533 cause smugglers wrong 100 days of its run against drugs, a elder serviceman said connected Monday.
The drive, "Yudh Nashian Virudh", was launched connected March 1 to extremity the cause menace successful the state.
According to the police, they froze assets worthy Rs 78.52 crore of 157 cause smugglers.
Special DGP (Law and Order) Arpit Shukla said hawala web had been efficaciously disrupted with the apprehension of 48 large operators, resulting successful the seizure of Rs 13.03 crore cause money.
“The freezing of illegally acquired properties and seizure of cause wealth from arrested cause smugglers person dealt a setback to the economical infrastructure of cause smugglers and their network," helium added.
He said the constabulary connected Monday arrested 127 cause smugglers and seized 4.1 kg of heroin, 20 kg of poppy husk and Rs 2.20 lakh cause money.
Over 200 constabulary teams, comprising implicit 1,400 constabulary personnel, nether the supervision of 90 gazetted officers, conducted raids astatine 466 locations crossed the authorities starring to the registration of 99 FIRs, helium said. The constabulary teams besides checked 489 suspicious persons during the day-long operation, helium added.
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