Moga: 9 booked for luring youth into drugs

Moga, July 5

Acting on a news report, “Moga woman chains son to keep him off drugs”, published in these columns on Monday, the police have booked nine persons for luring the youth to drugs.

A senior police official said Gurmail Singh, father of the addict, told the police that some youths of Buttar Kalan , identified as Nimma, Hari, Goga, Neetu, Rama, Gauri, Jassi, Sandeep and Ginder Singh, were giving intoxicating substance to his son Jagdev Singh for the past three months.

The police registered a case under Sections 328 and 120-B of the IPC against the youths. However, no arrests have been made. Due to the violent behaviour of Jagdev, his mother Darjo Rani had tied him with an iron chain at Buttar Kalan village in Nihalsinghwala subdivision in the district to keep him off drugs.