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| Environmental park Janipur becomes drug-addicts' den | | Drug smugglers call shots, authorities unmoved | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 20: Used syringes, empty injections, cigarette butts, tobacco packets strewn in a corner of environmental park Bhawani Nagar Janipur, are ample evidences suggesting frequent movement of drug addicts in the park, who have become nagging source of nuisance for children and women visitors.
Locals of Janipur locality informed Early Times that people of the locality especially women and children regularly visited the park during evening hours and even during afternoons of weekends. "But many a times we found some drug addicts puffing in the corner", a woman visitor said, adding that one day their children informed that some youth were taking injections in the corner.
"We feel frightened to question the drug addicts as they might harm us. Later we found used syringes, cigarette butts, empty tobacco sachets in the park", she said, adding that the presence of drug addicts made them uncomfortable in the park.
Another visitor said that there were some employees of the department in the park but they never took any action or complaint against these drug abusers. He demanded that Police must initiate action against the drug addicts and restrain them from making the public park as their den.
Sources informed Early Times that the environmental park of Bhawani Nagar was merely a tip of the iceberg. "In almost each locality of the Jammu, drug addiction has been on increase. Public parks, public toilets, bathrooms, left out spaces have become favourite places for drug addicts to inject drugs", sources said, adding that the tentacles of drug smugglers have spread across the Jammu province and the supply of drugs have been reaching the Jammu city and other districts in large quantity."
Police has been patting its back on the recovery of small quantity of drugs but in each and every nook of Jammu province, youth have been doing drugs but police has failed to check the menace. |
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