Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, March 5-
As part of the ‘Yudh Nashian Virudh’ campaign launched by the Punjab government to make the state drug-free, the
properties of drug smugglers in Jalandhar and Mandi Gobindgarh (Fatehgarh Sahib district) were demolished today.
Commissionerate Police Jalandhar, in coordination with the Municipal Corporation, on Wednesday demolished an illegal property belonging to a drug smuggler. The encroached structure, constructed on government land alledgely using drug money, was razed as part of the ongoing campaign "Yudh Nashian Virudh."
Divulging the details, Commissioner of Police Jalandhar stated that the Municipal Corporation had received information about an illegal construction on Government land by a notorious drug smuggler, Dharminder, son of Mohan Lal, a resident of Dhankiya Mohalla, Jalandhar.
The CP Jalandhar further revealed that Dharminder is a habitual offender, with six cases registered against him under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. Similarly, under the supervision of Fatehgarh Sahib SSP Shubham Agarwal, a house belonging to a drug trafficker in Master Colony, Mandi Gobindgarh, was demolished. This house had been built illegally on government land.