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| Drug addicts, smugglers can also be booked under PSA in Kashmir | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 22 : Drug smugglers, addicts and timber smugglers can also be booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA) in Jammu and Kashmir, a senior police officer said.
''We can book any person who is considered a threat to security of the country or state under the PSA,'' said Farooq Ahmad, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir range.
He said ''under the law, we can book a drug smuggler and an addict under the PSA. Most of the police personnel were not in the know that drug smugglers and addicts can also be booked under PSA,'' adding these criminals were getting bail and indulging in such activities repeatedly.
He said a timber smuggler could also be detained under the PSA and a number of them have been booked under the act.
He said the PSA was also being used against people who pose a threat to the security and integrity of the country and state.
''We show consideration for our misguided and mislead youths, who indulge in stone pelting on local issues,'' he said adding that first they resort to lathicharge and then burst teargas shells to disperse them.
The police chief admitted that bursting of teargas shells resulted in a few casualities.
About the allegations that police was not doing enough against the drug addiction, Mr Ahmad said police and other agencies have destroyed banned crops cultivated over lakhs of kanals of land in south Kashmir.
''We were getting full support from the people against the cultivation of banned crops in Pulwama,'' he said adding people in Bijbehara, who were resisting in the past, were now helping the police in the drug abuse eradication drive.
He said police has set up a de-addiction ten-bed centre in the police control room where people were being treated. There were long queues of drug-addicted people who want to get admitted to the centre, he added.
Mr Ahmad said ''we seek the cooperation of people to get rid of this evil in the valley''.
About the allegation that police was not doing anything to arrest the medicine shop owners who sell Corex and other medicines being used as drugs, he said police alone only cannot do every thing. It is the drug controller' duty to check the menace of drugs being sold without the doctor's prescription.
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