Police Urge Parents To Check Drugs Usage By Children

Hyderabad Police Commissioner C V Anand today said that many students had gotten addicted to drugs and ganja after Covid-19 broke out, and that even girl students were consuming ganja.

Talking to media persons today, the Commissioner said that it had come to his notice that some peddlers were selling drugs near the International School, and that drugs and ganja were freely available even in the rural areas nowadays as they were being smuggled in from the forest areas by anti-social and criminal elements.

Claiming that the malady was spreading like water under a mat, Anand opined that the country would face two grave issues in unemployment and consumption of drugs by the youth in the next ten years, and appealed to the parents to take utmost care and keep constant vigil on the movements of their children.

He added that upset by the menace, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had called a meeting of the police and other officers concerned recently and directed them to take all possible measures to curb the scourge. Towards that end, the state government had set up a Narcotic Enforcement Wing and a Narcotic Investigation Wing with 1,000 police personnel to stem the rot, he said, and added that the drug peddlers would be punished with iron hand.