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Bhopal labourer arrested for growing 12 cannabis plants at construction site
Bhopal labourer arrested for growing 12 cannabis plants at construction site
A labourer in Bhopal has been arrested after police found 12 cannabis plants growing at the under-construction building where he worked. The plants were discovered in the Katara Hills police station area…
The Story in Brief
A labourer in Bhopal has been arrested after police found 12 cannabis plants growing at the under-construction building where he worked. The plants were discovered in the Katara Hills police station area following a tip-off. Police said the accused, originally from Unnao in Uttar Pradesh, allegedly cultivated the plants to feed his own cannabis addiction.
Additional Police Commissioner Shailendra Singh Chauhan said the labourer grew the plants alongside his regular work. The plants were destroyed and a case was registered under the NDPS Act. The accused has been produced before a court and sent to jail. Police are now investigating where he obtained the seeds and whether anyone else was involved.
The Indian Opinion
A daily-wage labourer growing 12 cannabis plants for personal use is hardly a kingpin. Yet the NDPS Act leaves little room for discretion. The question is not whether the law was broken, it was, but whether the machinery of arrest and jail is proportionate to the harm. The real test will be what the court does: a fine and release, or weeks in custody for a man already at the margins.
Source: indiatoday.in
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