Crackdown on drugs at varsities launched

Police plan search operation at hostels after meeting with heads of institutes

DIJKOT:

Police have intensified crackdown against drug peddlers allegedly supplying drugs to university, college and school students.

The City Police Officer, Ghulam Mubashir Makeen, told a press conference at the police line that "18 kilograms of hashish, four kilogrammes of ice, three kilogrammes of heroin and 200 bottles of liquor have been seized from the possession of 14 drug dealers in educational institutions which are destroying the young generation".

The arrested accused included three brothers and the main ice dealers. Police presented them before the court after registering cases against them under 9C CNS Act, 1997.

A search operation would be conducted at the hostels after a meeting with the heads of educational institutions next week.

Accompanied by the CPO, SSP Operation Abdullah Luck, the SP of Lyallpur Town and Daniyal Ahmad Javed, he said that the police had deployed its personnel in plainclothes at the universities to identify the people who had been supplying drugs to the students.

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After receiving information from them, a police team arrested over a dozen accused, including three brothers, who had been allegedly selling drugs and ice at the educational institutions.

The three brothers were identified as Hashim, Khurram Shehzad and Qasim Shehzad.

Eighteen kilograms of hashish, four kilograms of ice, three kilograms of heroin and 200 bottles of liquor were seized from their possessions.

He said that they had a lot of information about the hostels in the educational institutions, and a meeting with the heads of the universities would be held before an operation.

After a search operation was conducted in the hostels, the universities' employees and the people posted in the cafeterias would be closely monitored.

The alleged dealers who had been arrested allegedly used a social media platform to communicate with their “employees”.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 27^th, 2022.