Opening the drug highway
IFP Bureau1 Aug 2023
Now after a lull of nearly three months, the drug route in Manipur is open once again and business as usual.
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Now after a lull of nearly three months, the drug route in Manipur is open once again and business as usual.
The drug route has somehow shifted to Mizoram state which also borders Myanmar and there is a sudden spurt in drug seizures there by state police and central agencies.
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.
IFP Editorial: What has been defeating the avowed sincerity in the campaign against drug smuggling is the infamous 2018 case of a drug seizure from the premises of an ADC Chairman Lhukhosei Zou.
The contempt case filed by the DIG against the chief editor was for allegedly publishing an affidavit submitted by Th Brinda in the High Court on July 13.
On November 3, 2018, Chief Minister N Biren Singh too had declared “war on drugs”. He hoped that the state government and the security forces would strictly look into drug users and initiate stringent action against drug trafficking and peddling.