Sameer Singh
Tribune News Service
Bathinda, September 10
Police teams have started holding awareness seminars even as raids in different parts of Mehraj village in the district yielded no results following a report carried in these columns on September 7 on the drug menace.
Police teams have set up checkpoints and are frisking people entering or leaving the village. In the report — I have lost two sons, curb drug menace: Father — it was highlighted that the menace was rampant at Mehraj, the ancestral village of Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh. Many youths had lost their lives to drugs over the past few years and incidents of youngsters falling unconscious due to drug overdose were commonplace in the village.
A day after the report was carried, IG (Bathinda range) Jaskaran Singh and SSP Ajay Maluja along with other police officials visited the village and conducted awareness seminars, exhorting residents not to fall prey to drugs. SSP Ajay Maluja said: “After the news was published, we visited the village to take stock of the situation. We also conducted seminars on drugs menace. We have conducted raids at different places but have not caught hold of any peddler or seized drugs.”
Apart from launching a crackdown on drug peddlers, the police would continue to hold awareness seminars at regular intervals so that people stayed away from drugs, he said. “We have constituted special police teams to curb the menace in other parts of the district as well,” he added.
AAP plans bike rally
AAP MLA Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer on Friday said from September 20, the youth wing would hold a motorcycle rally from Bathinda to Patiala to raise drug awareness among people. They would burn an effigy of the CM, he added.
Awareness drive, drug raids at Capt’s village
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