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Delhi police holds drug trafficker under PITNDPS Act
Delhi Police has detained Dharamveer Singh, 51, under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PITNDPS) Act. The crime branch sent a detention proposal to the finance ministry’s…
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Delhi Police has detained Dharamveer Singh, 51, under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PITNDPS) Act. The crime branch sent a detention proposal to the finance ministry’s PITNDPS division. Special CP HGS Dhaliwal said the order was based on Singh’s repeated involvement in drug trafficking.
Singh was picked up from Fateh Nagar in west Delhi and is being moved to Puzhal central jail in Chennai. Police say he has nine criminal cases, started supplying ganja after his 1994 wedding, and ran a cable operator business as a cover. In 2022, he and his gang attacked a Delhi Police narcotics team, leaving two civilians injured and four policemen hurt by stone-pelting.
The Indian Opinion
The PITNDPS Act lets police hold repeat offenders without immediate trial, but stories of Dharamveer Singh’s nine cases and 2022 attack on a police team show the real bottleneck is enforcement, not law. A single cable operator turned trafficker smuggled ganja from south India for decades. The question: will preventive detention in Chennai break the supply chain or merely shift the geography of a nationwide network?
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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