Ahead of New Year’s Eve, the Bengaluru City Police have launched a special drive to curb drug use during parties and revelry.
Over the last week, the city police have rounded up hundreds of known peddlers and raided their houses to check for narcotics and possible leads on deals being brokered ahead of New Year’s Eve. All known peddlers with a history of cases under the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act, of 1985, have been summoned by the jurisdictional police and questioned over their recent activities. Paying guest accommodations, employees with private companies who have been booked earlier for similar offences have been summoned and instructed to inform the police if they come across any instances of drug sale and usage, a police officer part of the drive said.
“We have launched a special drive since last week and jurisdictional police have rounded up peddlers for questioning and searched their houses,” City Police Commissioner B. Dayananda said. According to him, the CCB Anti Narcotics Wing carried out raids in many places and booked two cases which included the seizure of ₹21 crore worth of heroin and MDMA. “It is one of the biggest raids so far in the year,” he said. This cache of narcotics was being stashed for New Year’s Eve.
