Golaghat / Diphu: Assam Minister Himanta Buswa Sarma on Saturday said that the police had given “operational freedom” to deal with drug smugglers and dealers, and request “acting decisively” to revoke the threat of drugs from the community.
He said that the increase in action to take drug supplies and the consumption chain throughout the northeast had been going on in the last two years after UNION’s home minister Amit Shah issued a special direction to DGPs from countries in the region.
Speaking at the disposal of the drug confiscated in Golaghat, Sarma, “I want to give this clear message to the drug dealer as the main minister, I have given full freedom to the police to take the heaviest action as permitted by law of this crime.” ” Police Assam will set their own limits and fulfill their responsibilities.
After obtaining this operational freedom, the police stopped in their pursuit of drug dealers, “he said.
In other similar events in DIFU, the ministerial chief said that the police had been given operational freedom to act strongly and firmly in law to revoke illegal trade.
Sarma said that when Shah visited Assam two years ago, he had held a deliberation with the Director General of Police (DGPS) from the northeastern state by cutting the drug supply line.
Actions on drug trafficking throughout the region have been accelerated after the meeting, he said, added that “strong intelligence networks and cultivation sources” are absolutely necessary to deal with it as “people in the government” are also involved in this racket because the lure of this money is easy.
He claimed that many guerrilla clothes used young people who were addicted to drugs as their cadres, even though Ulfa was not among these groups.
The minister’s chairman said that the questions were submitted by several MLA in the Assembly regarding the shooting of drug dealers when they tried to escape to escape the police prisoner “wrong place” as a relief that could lead to runaway even one drug dealer would spell catastrophe for more state youth , He stated that police personnel acted in the power given to them by law.
Sarma said he urged the police to use the heaviest law to curb the threat of the drug because it destroyed the country’s social material and pushed the entire generation into darkness.
Speaking to reporters in Dietu, the ministerial chief said that drugs worth RS 163 Crore have been confiscated and 1,493 people were arrested because the government considers the office two months ago.
The confiscated contraband included 19 kg of heroin, 8,276 kg of marijuana, 14 kg opium, 67,650 bottle of cough syrup, and 1,920 kg of morphine.
In Golaghat, 1.02 kg of heroin, 1,200 kg of marijuana and 3 kg of opium was burned in a Pyre illuminated by the minister’s chairman.
In Dietu, 11.88 kg of morphine, 2.89 kg of metal crystals, 3.47 kg of heroin, and 102.91 kg of marijuana was destroyed.
Similar disposal programs are scheduled to be held in the Nagaon and Hojai districts on Sundays.