Overturning a 20-year-old order convicting a man under NDPS Act for illicit trading of poppy husk and sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment, the Punjab and Haryana High Court observed that the sample recovered was not the one which was sent to Forensic Science Laboratory.The appellant was convicted under Section 15 of NDPS Act for possessing over 29 kgs and …
Fazilka police on Friday arrested two drug smugglers with 511 gm heroin, a 30-bore China-made pistol, and a live cartridge from a checkpoint in Jalalabad on Friday. 4 held with poppy husk In a separate operation, the counter intelligence wing of Ferozepur nabbed four drug smugglers with 425 kg of poppy husk in Jalalabad on Friday. Lakhbir Singh, assistant inspector …
The anti-narcotics cell of the police commissionerate arrested three accused on drug peddling charges in two cases, and recovered 82 kg poppy husk and 600 gm opium from their possession. The team stopped him for checking and recovered 42 kg poppy husk and 600 gm opium from the car. In the second case, the police arrested Gurpreet and recovered 8 …
A farmer and a driver who were nabbed with 52 kg poppy husk in Mohali in 2018 have been awarded 10-year rigorous imprisonment by a local court. Earlier, pleading leniency, Kulvir, an agriculturist, submitted that he was the sole breadwinner in the family and had a four-year-old son, while Manga, a driver, said he had a five-month-old daughter. The ASI …
As Punjab tries to wriggle out of the grip of the rampant drug menace, the farmers as well as policy-makers have been pushing for legalising opium poppy cultivation, arguing it will increase farmers’ income and help fight against fatal synthetic drugs. Different studies reveal that around 67% of people Punjab are addicted to synthetic drugs like heroin so the state …
