Chandigarh: Launching a special drive against the drugs menace in the state, the Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann, who held a meeting of Commissioners of Police (CPs), deputy commissioners (DCs) and senior superintendents of police (SSPs) on Friday, asked them to make Punjab a drug-free state in coming three months.
Mann, who also rolled out the government's new policy to combat the drug menace during the high-level meeting, said that the state government will set up special courts to ensure speedy trial of drugs cases and ensure conviction of the culprits. Mann said that there is no dearth of funds for this and assured fulsome support and cooperation to the police and civil administration for this cause.
He said that preventive measures should be taken in the school and colleges so that youth doesn’t fell prey to the scourge of drugs, the chief minister held that the government will also ensure that the drug peddlers and their families do not get any sort of subsidy in terms of free power, water and others by the government so that it acts as a deterrent for the criminals.
Citing an example of Narangwal village in Ludhiana district where illegal property of a drug smuggler was razed on Thursday evening, Mann said that a library will be constructed over the Shamlat land where the house was razed.
The chief minister further asked the CPs and SSPs that within three months there should be no availability of drugs and after a month evaluation of each SSP will be made on progress in the anti-drug programme in the district adding that all the officers will be accountable and action will be taken against non-performers. He said that registration of cases should be done against drug traffickers adding that he had already been supplied the list for this.
Directing for a strict action against police officials involved in consumption/promotion of drugs, he said that property of convicts in drug smuggling should be seized with immediate effect adding that 100% properties should be seized and razed in commercial quantity cases.
