The courtroom ordered the Extra Advocate Common to carry discussions with high police officers and submit the motion plan earlier than it by September 19.
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Madras Excessive Courtroom Appearing Chief Justice (ACJ) D. Krishnakumar on Monday puzzled how narcotic medicine and psychotropic substances proceed to land within the fingers of faculty and school college students regardless of the existence of a number of companies to curb the drug menace.
Presiding over the primary Division Bench together with Justice P.B. Balaji, the ACJ needed to know whether or not the Narcotics Intelligence Bureau-Crime Investigation Division (NIB-CID) of the State police and different related wings had sufficient personnel or not. The Bench directed Extra Advocate Common (AAG) J. Ravindran to carry discussions with high officers of the Police Division and provide you with a transparent motion plan on cracking down on the drug sellers within the State with a view to safe the way forward for the scholars.
The AAG was requested to current the motion plan earlier than the courtroom by September 19. The ACJ expressed severe concern over reviews of free availability of ganja and different narcotic medicine throughout the State, with faculty and school college students being the key client base.
He stated the police might definitely not feign ignorance about such a severe difficulty or deny the supply of narcotic medicine throughout the State. Impressing upon the necessity to take concrete steps in direction of making Tamil Nadu a narcotics-free State, he needed the police to provide you with a plan.
The instructions had been issued in the course of the listening to of a public curiosity litigation petition associated to the residents of the Tamil Nadu City Habitat Improvement Board (TNUHDB) tenements at Perumbakkam, Navalur, and All India Radio (AIR) Nagar, on the outskirts of Chennai, affected by the drug menace.
The ACJ advised the AAG that the drug menace was ubiquitous throughout the State and, due to this fact, the police should give high precedence to deal with the difficulty because it concerned the way forward for the kids. He additionally warned that the courtroom must attain out to different companies if the State police fails to behave decisively.
Printed – September 09, 2024 08:37 pm IST
