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| PSA against stone- pelting youth, what about drug suppliers' | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar: Expressing concern over the growing use of Charus among the youth, religious leaders Friday asked the police to clarify stand about "no-action" against its suppliers and addicts in light of the "Public Safety Act" against the stone-pelting youth in the state.
"SSP Sahib talks about invoking Public Safety Act against the stone-pelting youth, but what about no action against the Charus suppliers and its addicts," Moulana Showkat Ahmad Shah told a Friday gathering at Maisuma today.
According to PBI, Shah quoted witnesses claimed that youth were openly fuming Charus at several locations in Maisuma and no action was initiated against them.
"I have no right in the purview of Shariah (Islamic Law) to blame any one without proof but it becomes obvious when no action is initiated against someone who resorts to unlawful activities openly," he said, adding, "it makes one to construe that they enjoy the police patronage and offer graft to it in return of the favour."
Maulana Showkat appealed police to initiate action against the Charus peddlers in Maisuma and other parts of the city to save society from becoming "entirely Charsees (Charus addicts)."
"If the trend goes on, everyone would become Charus addict one-day and as policemen are from this society, the too cannot save themselves from becoming Charsees."
City police Chief Afadul Mujtaba recently said that police would book under PSA the stone pelting youth. Kashmir High Court Bar Association however contended the move, even describing the police order as a blatant violation of the law.
"Only those feared enemies to the public law and order, danger to state security and timber smugglers could be booked under the Act," Mian Qayoom said.
He said stone throwers could only be treated under a normal criminal law.
A survey released by a Non-governmental organization—Action Aid International— claimed that the half of unemployed youth in Kashmir are either taking to smoking cigarettes or resort to sleeping pills or consume drugs as an escape route to reduce anxiety and tension caused by joblessness.
The startling findings have come in a survey conducted by Kashmir chapter of in Srinagar, Budgam and Pulwama districts of the Valley over a period of four months last year
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