Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 14: Admitting that dropping narcotics through drones has emerged as the biggest challenge to checking narco-terrorism in the Western International Border, the senior officer of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) said that they are seeking assistance from some US-based agencies to frustrate evil designs of drug mafia.
“Drone is a big challenge in the Western International Border. Recently a joint meeting of Border Security Force (BSF), Punjab Police, Jammu and Kashmir Police, Rajasthan Police, and Narcotics Control Bureau was held to discuss the prevailing situation”, Gyaneshwar Singh, Deputy Director General (Northern Region) said.
He further informed that threadbare discussions were held to devise a fresh strategy to foil designs of drug mafia sitting across the border which is smuggling narcotics through drones.
“On the demand of some agencies, assistance was sought from US-based agencies namely Marine Air Wing and Home Land Security to face the challenge of dropping drugs through drones”, he said.
Narcotics Control Bureau, zonal unit Jammu disposed-off 330 Kilograms of narcotics drugs seized by NCB Jammu in the recent past which contained Heroin – 153 Kgs. & Charas – 177 kgs., valued in crores by using incinerator facility of M/S Anmol Health Care, Village- Rakh Rara, Swankha Morh, Vijaypur, Samba (J&K) on today.
The disposal of these Narcotics Drugs (04 cases of heroin) has been carried out on the same day by the High Level Drug Disposal Committee (HLDDC) constituted by Director General, NCB, New Delhi headed by Gyaneshwar Singh, IPS, Deputy Director General(Northern Region) having members as Zonal Director, NCB Jammu & Deputy Director, DRI Jammu and by the Regular Drug Disposal Committee ( RDDC) in (05 cases of charas) headed by Zonal Director, NCB Jammu with members from DRI and ANTF Jammu.
It is also worthwhile to mention here that during the last year in 2022, NCB Jammu disposed off Charas-154.56 kgs., Poppy Straw-1175.500 kgs., Codeine based bough syrup- 32,204 Bottles and Spasmoproxyvon Capsules-33,160 nos. valued in crores by using incinerator facility at M/s Berger Paints India Ltd. Phase-1, Samba and at M/S Anmol Health Care, Village- Rakh Rara, Swankha Morh, Vijaypur, Samba (J&K).
By acting against the drug traffickers, the NCB and other Enforcement agencies not only put a spanner on drugs trading, but also stopped the flow of drugs through the state to other parts of the country. While setting the seized drugs on fire, there is a loud message in the society that , “The blazing flames of the seized drugs symbolises our government’s commitment to make ‘Nasha Mukt Bharat” and the operation against drugs to continue unabated’.
Before disposal, authentication of the drugs was done by the concerned District Session Courts as per NDPS Act and Rules with proper NOC & the drug disposal was carried out by the Drug Disposal Committees in the presence of officers of State Pollution Control Board, Jammu. |
