Tribune News Service
Sanjeev Singh Bariana
Chandigarh, April 4
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday stated “stern action” can be initiated against these named in reports pertaining to drug commerce in Punjab. Three drug-related reports have been handed over to the CM by the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Prepared by former DGP Chattopadhyay
- The reports have been ready by an SIT headed by ex-DGP Siddharth Chattopadhyay
- Punjab and Haryana HC had stated that the reports be acted upon by the state govt
The reports, ready by a particular investigating crew (SIT) headed by former DGP Siddharth Chattopadhyay on the position of the police and different points, got here to the centre stage lately after the Punjab and Haryana High Court made it clear that these be acted upon by the state authorities. During the final listening to in March, the federal government was handed over copies of the reports by the High Court.
The Chief Minister alleged that the drug commerce had flourished in the course of the earlier Akali-BJP and Congress regimes. Affluent leaders of each these events had patronised the unlawful commerce in connivance with bureaucrats and drug smugglers, he alleged.
On February 15, the CM had given consent to open all three reports — dated February 1, 2018; March 15, 2018; and May 8, 2018 — submitted by the SIT. More reports coping with the drug menace may even be submitted.
A senior police officer, not wishing to be quoted, stated, “It could be very encouraging that the reports are being made public. The reports — primarily based on the exhausting work of a particular crew of officers on a problem that issues that whole state — are anticipated to indicate the bottom actuality. Punjab is already very late in stemming drug menace however concrete action even now will imply lots.”
The officer stated, “The medication are the basis of many issues within the state notably these involving the youth. Now, when the reports are coming within the open, folks will see the faces behind the masks who led them on the trail of self-destruction.”
Critics described the event as the federal government’s effort to divert public consideration from on-the-run pro-Khalistan activist Amritpal and lately launched Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.
But authorities sources stated, “The allegations are baseless as the federal government had given its consent on February 15, a lot earlier than these developments. These reports have been pending for the previous 5 years throughout Capt Amarinder Singh and Charanjit Channi regimes of the Congress and no action was taken.”
