CHANDIGARH: In a rare initiative of its kind in the state so far, the Haryana Police from Sonipat district has secured the detention orders of a habitual offender and notorious drug peddler under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PITNDPS) Act, 1988, a law under which preventive detention for a period of one year without bail is possible.
Haryana Police spokesperson informed that after 2008, this is the first action in the state against a drug peddler under the stringent Act. A dossier was submitted by the Superintendent of Police, Himanshu Garg before the Competent Authority in Delhi, who passed the orders to detain accused Rakesh, a resident of village Rohna, police station Kharkhoda, Sonipat in District Jail Sonipat for one year under the PITNDPS Act.
