Amritsar: To stop the production of opium that serves as a raw material for the manufacture of heroin, Amritsar Customs The commissionerate has launched a massive drive to destroy the opium used for the production of opium, farms in the Union Territory (JKUT).
Asserting that they had launched an opium destruction operation at JKUT, which could go on for around two weeks, Amritsar Customs Commissioner Rahul Nangare on Tuesday said that they have so far destroyed opium crop at 23 places in Pulwama district. and this campaign will go ahead. JKUT should be extended to other districts including Shopian and Anantnag where illegal cultivation of narcotic crops like opium was done.
He said that opium crop has been destroyed in villages including Neva, Urwan, Malwari and Rakhi Pahu under the jurisdiction of Thana Neva and village Puhu under the jurisdiction of Police Station Kakapora was also destroyed. Is. Police officers to take appropriate action against the landowners under the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.
Sources said that opium as well as heroin eventually finds its way into various markets in Punjab.
Asserting that they had launched an opium destruction operation at JKUT, which could go on for around two weeks, Amritsar Customs Commissioner Rahul Nangare on Tuesday said that they have so far destroyed opium crop at 23 places in Pulwama district. and this campaign will go ahead. JKUT should be extended to other districts including Shopian and Anantnag where illegal cultivation of narcotic crops like opium was done.
He said that opium crop has been destroyed in villages including Neva, Urwan, Malwari and Rakhi Pahu under the jurisdiction of Thana Neva and village Puhu under the jurisdiction of Police Station Kakapora was also destroyed. Is. Police officers to take appropriate action against the landowners under the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.
Sources said that opium as well as heroin eventually finds its way into various markets in Punjab.