Peddler, repeat offender gets 3-month detention
Our Correspondent
Nurpur, August 5
The Home Secretary-cum-Detention Authority, Shimla, has issued a detention order under Section 3(1) of the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PIT-NDPS) Act, 1988, against a repeat drug peddling offender, identified as Ruby Devi, wife of Ajay Kumar, of Chhanni village in the Indora subdivision under the Nurpur police district.
This is the third case across the state in which the Detention Authority had confirmed the detention order of a repeat offender, Nurpur SP Ashok Ratan said, adding that all three of the repeat offenders were from the Nurpur police district.
As per police information, the accused had been arrested by the Damtal police on April 20 this year and 26.18-gm heroin (chitta) was recovered from her possession during a search of her residence. The police had registered a case under Section 21 of the NDPS Act against her. Ratan said during the investigation, the accused was found to be involved in several cases under the NDPS Act. She had been arrested multiple times by the police, but would continue peddling drugs after getting bail, he added.
The proposal for obtaining the detention order against her was submitted to the Home Secretary on May 8, and, now, the detention authority had confirmed a three-month detention order against the repeat offender, the SP said.
Crackdown on notorious peddlers
SPs across the state have been empowered to submit proposals of repeat offenders in drug trafficking cases to the Home Secretary-cum-Detention Authority, and after obtaining three-month detention, they could further submit their cases to the state Advisory Board headed by a serving justice of the state High Court
