District police on campaign to eradicate drug menace

5 Dariya News (Arvind Sharma)

Dharamshala 08-Sep-2018

Dharamshala (Kangra) Police is continuing with the objective to eradicate drug menace in District Kangra.The police spokesperson informed PTI that a special campaign was launched in this District on 7.9.18 to check all shops, khokhas situated near all educational institutions of this District to identify persons involved in drugs trafficking so as to save our youth from the bad effects of drugs.He added that during checking, District Police has conducted 39 challan under head COTPA and 3850/- fine realised whereas one challan under head Polythene Act has also been done during the campaign. In addition to above, 1 case under head Excise Act has also been detected in which 3700 ML Country Liquor has been recovered from a shop. District Police is dedicated to put all out efforts to eradicate drug menace and it is an appeal from the society to share information of drug peddlers as well as other miscreants with us without any fear enabling us to achieve desired goal.Santosh Patial SP Kangra  added, “  today staff of District Narcotic Cell and police station  Shahpur has succeeded to recover 790 grams Charas from the possession of Rajkumar (38)son of  Hari Singh resident of  VPO Daikwan Nurpur . Charas was kept by Raj Kumar in a pick van bearing registration number HP38-B-4151. A case under ND&PS ACT has been registered and accused arrested. “