Will initiate necessary measures to reduce drug users: URC
IFP Bureau15 Dec 2023
URC is a conglomerate body of 17 rehab centres in Manipur.
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URC is a conglomerate body of 17 rehab centres in Manipur.
Manipur crisis is a premeditated ploy to dethrone the state chief minister by drug lords affected by the ‘War on Drugs’ campaign, says SSUM.
IFP Editorial: There are lot of rotten apples among the police which not only brings bad reputation to the force but defeats the very purpose of War on Drugs campaign.
IFP Editorial: There must certainly be patrons or powerful people behind the widespread poppy plantation just as there would be for the heavy traffic of drugs in recent times.
IFP Editorial: The mission for bringing back the drug addicts into the mainstream must be followed and the rule-book or the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) established by the state authorities for operation and running of rehab centres must be put into practice.
IFP Editorial: We still do not know what the Centre is saying about the Manipur government withdrawing from SoO. Still then, it is also the responsibility of the leaders to come clean, leaving aside political considerations and community affiliations.
Destroying poppy cultivations and arresting chiefs and those supplying or selling drugs is a great move. But it is perhaps just the tip of the iceberg and to root out drugs from the state, one must destroy the source or the master.
The MPCC pointed out that all the anonymous drug lords are walking scot free while only the transporters are facing the wrath of law.
The present BJP government will not tolerate and compromise with those who are involved in illegal drugs business, plantation of poppy, practiced corruption and destroyers of forests, CM Biren said.
IFP Editorial: Chief Minister N Biren Singh needs to have a plan for curbing police corruption if he wants to really succeed in his War on Drugs campaign.
IFP Editorial: Merely rewarding policemen for seizure of drugs and couriers is not enough. The main focus should be on investigation of the drugs which found its way into the hands of the law-enforcing agencies and in finding out who are the powerful patrons or drug-lords behind this lucrative business.
MHRC takes suo-motu case on alleged nexus between drug lords and police officials and politicians based on several reports by local dailies.
IFP Editorial: A venture in large scale ‘illegal’ cultivation of poppy does not come out of the blue to some ‘enterprising’ hill chieftain or businessmen.
The general allegation is that the new rule is giving more power to the police personnel to harass and victimise the drug users while on the other hand, it provides a free hand to the drug peddlers and mafias. But, perhaps, we need to dig deeper for what is missing in the new ordinance.
The Iramdam Kanba Apunba Lup (IKAL) stated that there is a big question of whether the politicians are supporting the drug lords to abolish the society.