Chandigarh: To ensure the upcoming poll in Punjab remains drug free, the Punjab High Court and Haryana have issued a notification to the Indian Election Commission (ECI) who are looking for answers.
HC also asked the Punjab government to produce a road map prepared by it to overcome the threat of drugs in the state.
“The election has been established in the state of the Punjab, we recognize the fact that there is an incident ‘drug for voting’ in the election in Punjab …
Thus, we consider it suitable to issue notifications to the State Election Commission, Punjab ask their response to ensure ‘ drug free elections, ‘observing HC when delaying this problem for January 20 for the next hearing.
HC passed this order while considering the recovery of large amounts of heroin and other narcotics in Punjab during the previous election in the division state in Punjab while hearing many appeals by inmates in drug-related cases seeking their sentence Just for the Mend Police Aflow the need for cases to wake up with challenges.
“Malady has gripped the public.
It was unable to be in a state of inertia.
This court believes that there must be several individual efforts carried out by public citizens on drug problems, but the threat by now beyond individual efforts.
These efforts need to be integrated To respond to this disease.
This is for the country to assume the responsibility for cemeteralizing the response.
Time has found the community and the country to look upstream, “observes HC while looking for a detailed Punjab response to this problem.
The division bench also observed that more than a burden of more than 46,000 appeals in the case of a delayed drug before the High Court, which weighed was that for many years Nu MBER cases did not show a decline.
“When this number is thrown on the number of working AYs, the Insome Years The av-erage is more than one appeal per day.
There are more than 16,000 inmates under the NDPS law and the majority of them are in the state of the punjab.
This makes the case for the country for Looking beyond the steps of prevention in the form of NDPS laws and developing reformative steps too, “observing the bench.