Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 21:
Taking serious note of the adverse impact of drug abuse, the Karong Senapati Town Committee (KSTC) in a meeting held on April 15 at the District Council hall, has resolved to take stringent measures to check drug abuse and peddling and trafficking of heroin in the jurisdiction of the committee.
A press release issued by the KSTC conveyed that any one found peddling heroin shall face banishment/expulsion from KSTC jurisdiction indefinitely.
Any information leading to seizure of illicit drugs like heroin, traffickers, peddlers etc shall be rewarded with Rs 10,000.In all such cases the identity of the informants will be kept secret, it assured.
Any business establishment such as pharmacies, bookstores, stationeries, ware-houses etc found selling psychotropic substances without valid prescription and proper verification to minors would be barred from doing business for one month as penalty, it further warned.