Drug Tablets Being Bought Inside Jails Navjot Sidhu Slams Bhagwant Mann
Navjot Sidhu claimed that he’s prepared to depart politics if he’s proved in any other case. (File)
Bathinda, Punjab:
Amid the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket pulling up the Punjab authorities on the steps taken to verify drug trafficking, Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu alleged that underneath the watch of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, drug tablets are being bought in jails.
Navjot Sidhu additionally claimed that he’s prepared to depart politics if he’s proved in any other case.
“Legislation and order, drug mafia, jail. The Excessive Court docket requested for a coverage inside per week. CM Bhagwant Mann is the jail minister. What did he do?… Drug tablets are being bought contained in the jails… If I’m confirmed a liar, I’ll depart politics,” Navjot Sidhu mentioned, talking to reporters on Saturday.
The Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket has not too long ago sought a standing report from the Punjab and Haryana governments on the steps taken after the BSF gave a listing of 75 people suspected of involvement in drug trafficking to the Punjab Police.
The Excessive Court docket took cognizance of a information article printed in an English newspaper that talked about that the Border Safety Drive (BSF) gave a listing of 75 people suspected of involvement in drug trafficking to the Punjab Police.
Furthermore, the Excessive Court docket has made the Punjab and Haryana governments and the Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) events on this case and has issued a discover and ordered them to file their replies.
In keeping with the information launched by BSF, BSF has seized round 755 kg of narcotics to date within the yr 2023. 95 drones coming from Pakistan have been shot down. 36 Pakistani nationals have been arrested, of whom 15 rifles and 38 pistols have been recovered. Along with this, 9 Pakistanis who had been making an attempt to cross the border have been killed.
“The State of Punjab is directed to file a standing report with respect to the steps being taken in pursuance of the report given to it by the BSF. The State of Haryana may even file a standing report relating to the steps being taken within the state within the matter,” the court docket order learn.
“NCB can be directed to file a standing report giving particulars of the individuals affected by drug habit within the States of Punjab and Haryana and how much steps might be taken, to make individuals who until date aren’t in drug habit, conscious of the drug menace, and the way they need to be prevented from taking medicine, because the narcotic gadgets recovered within the State of Punjab, as reported within the information paper, are big,” it added.
Earlier on Monday, the Border Safety Drive (BSF) Particular DG of Western Command mentioned that it has given a listing of suspected drug merchants within the border areas of Punjab to the Punjab Police. The BSF has additionally advisable their detention underneath the Prevention of Illicit Visitors in Narcotic Medication and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988.
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