Mafia deploying women for drug trade

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Mafia deploying women for drug trade

Monday, 20 June 2022 | SAROJ MISHRA | BHUBANESWAR

 In a bid to counter the aggressive crackdown launched by the law enforcement agencies against illegal narcotics trade, the drug mafia has devised a new strategy by deploying women and couples to peddle narcotics in different parts of the capital city.

A glaring example of this is, of the 40 drug peddlers who were arrested jointly by police and Excise Departments in the last six months, more than 20 of them were women and couples.

During the same period, the Commissionerate police alone arrested 24 peddlers and seized brown sugar worth over Rs 67 lakh and Rs 2.4 lakh in cash from their possession. Of the arrested peddlers, seven were women.

Drugs mafias' latest trend of roping in women and couples, particularly from slum areas, has become a big concern for the police and has forced them to re-devise their strategy to snap the supply lines.

City DCP Prateek Singh said “We have noticed that a new trend of running the illegal business with the help of women and couples has set in. We would take action against them under the NDPS Act.”

During the last eight months, the Excise Department arrested 26 peddlers and seized brown sugar weighing over one kilogram. Of the arrested 26 peddlers, 14 were women including some who had been arrested on several occasions.

An excise official commenting on the drug mafia’s technique said, “They can easily conceal the contraband items and without women cops we can’t search them. Besides, since it has become a profitable trade, more and more women are entering the narcotics trade.

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