CHANDIGARH: Taking note of the social media and news reports regarding sale of drugs openly in Rauli village of Moga district and Vajidpur of Ferozepur, Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa has directed SSPs of both the districts to personally intervene and take strict action, besides attaching property of drug dealers.
The deputy CM also asked to initiate disciplinary action against the police officers who failed to take concrete action against drug smuggling, despite complaints of villagers. The senior superintendents of police (SSPs) have been directed to submit the action taken report within three days. Randhawa, who also holds the charge of home department, said that no laxity in dealing with drug related cases would be tolerated and negligent police officers would not be spared.
On the basis of Randhawa’s instructions, principal secretary of the home department has also issued letters to the Moga and Ferozepur district police chiefs, citing that even as the chief minister and the deputy chief minister had directed all SSPs to take strict action against drugs, social media reports suggests that drugs were being sold openly in the said two villages and no concrete action was taken by the police.
In the case of Rauli village, people in the village were complaining that the police had not registered any case against one person who had come out on bail and was again involved in selling drugs openly.
