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Editorial

Giving safe passage

IFP Bureau20 Apr 2023

IFP Editorial: There must certainly be patrons or powerful people behind the widespread poppy plantation just as there would be for the heavy traffic of drugs in recent times.

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Editorial

Drug users as victims

IFP Bureau13 Apr 2023

IFP Editorial: The mission for bringing back the drug addicts into the mainstream must be followed and the rule-book or the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) established by the state authorities for operation and running of rehab centres must be put into practice.

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Editorial

Self-policing needed

IFP Bureau10 Apr 2023

IFP Editorial: We still do not know what the Centre is saying about the Manipur government withdrawing from SoO. Still then, it is also the responsibility of the leaders to come clean, leaving aside political considerations and community affiliations.

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Opinion

War on Drug Lords is the need of the hour!

R Alexander10 Feb 2023

Destroying poppy cultivations and arresting chiefs and those supplying or selling drugs is a great move. But it is perhaps just the tip of the iceberg and to root out drugs from the state, one must destroy the source or the master.

Editorial

Couriers are not important; the big fish always gets away

IFP Bureau29 Aug 2021

IFP Editorial: Merely rewarding policemen for seizure of drugs and couriers is not enough. The main focus should be on investigation of the drugs which found its way into the hands of the law-enforcing agencies and in finding out who are the powerful patrons or drug-lords behind this lucrative business.

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Editorial

Of drug users and drug lords

IFP Bureau22 Oct 2020

The general allegation is that the new rule is giving more power to the police personnel to harass and victimise the drug users while on the other hand, it provides a free hand to the drug peddlers and mafias. But, perhaps, we need to dig deeper for what is missing in the new ordinance.

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