Peddlers using students as ‘agent’ to sell drugs
| Date :02-Apr-2019 |
Staff Reporter,
If the officers of Crime Branch are to be believed, then recent crackdown on drug peddlers, revealed shocking fact that a few students from top reputed schools and colleges in the city were not only their regular customers but also work as drug suppliers for the drug racket. The Crime Branch has identified more than one-and-a-half dozen such students who were not only using these drugs but also helping peddlers to expend their strings.
The investigations has left parents worried, as school going kids, as young as 9th or 10th standard, were found addicted to LSD or Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, also popularly known as ‘mood-changing chemical’. School children are spending money up to Rs 2,000, to get high on drugs. In the investigation, police have identified 18 youngsters, mostly BE and MBA graduates, who have been supplying high-end narcotics, especially LSD, to children who seemed to be easy target. As most of the students are from lower-middle class families who stay in hostels in city are attracted by the money or drugs.
Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime) Nishchal N Jharia said, “Peddling seems to have become a means for college students to make easy money, with drug suppliers increasingly engaging them as ‘agents’ to sell the contraband on college campuses. The students are given commission money or drugs free of cost for this. While ganja consumption has always been widespread on campuses, more expensive drugs like brown sugar and smack are also finding their way into colleges.” “After shocking and disturbing details emerged from the nabbed drug peddlers, the Crime Branch has planned to carry out raid with team of drug inspectors to bust more gang of drug peddlers involved in using school children as couriers to deliver drugs to college students and vice versa”, added ASP Jharia.