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In a important determination nether its anti-drug campaign, Mysuru City Police person invoked the stringent provisions of the Prevention of Illicit Traffic successful Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PIT NDPS) Act, 1988 for the archetypal time, detaining a habitual ganja peddler successful a determination aimed astatine dismantling the city’s narcotics network.
The accused, Irfan Pasha alias ‘Batana’, 32, a nonmigratory of Mandi Mohalla, was taken into preventive detention pursuing an bid issued connected Monday. He has been lodged successful the Ballari Central Prison nether the Act’s provisions, which let authorities to detain individuals to forestall further illicit activities.
Police Commissioner Seema Latkar shared details of the lawsuit and the steps taken nether the provisions astatine a property league successful Mysuru connected Tuesday.
According to the police, Pasha had been engaged successful the sale, storage, transportation, and proviso of ganja since the property of 19. Between 2014 and 2025, 9 cases were registered against him nether the NDPS Act, with a full seizure of 28kg of ganja linked to these cases. He was convicted successful 3 instances, a property merchandise from the bureau of the Commissioner of Police, Mysuru, stated.
Despite being classified arsenic a habitual offender and monitored done a rowdy sheet, and adjacent aft preventive ineligible actions were initiated against him, helium allegedly continued his engagement successful cause trafficking. “The Police said helium repeatedly secured conditional bail from courts but violated the presumption to resume amerciable operations,” the property merchandise said.
Citing his accordant breach of bail conditions and continued engagement successful narcotics trade, the constabulary decided to invoke the PIT NDPS Act, a preventive detention law, to curb his activities. This is the archetypal specified determination against repetition offenders, with the metropolis constabulary getting pugnacious connected cause peddlers arsenic its efforts to marque the metropolis drug-free.
The constabulary besides warned that akin stringent measures would beryllium taken against different peddlers operating successful the amerciable cause network.
The Police Commissioner said 30 cause peddlers person been externed arsenic portion of measures taken to curb their activities.
The Mysuru City Police person besides appealed to the nationalist to enactment their efforts by reporting accusation related to the sale, transport, oregon depletion of narcotics via the “Vimukthi” helpline (8277948080).
₹20 lakh worthy mobile phones recovered
In a palmy month-long peculiar operation, the Mysuru City Police recovered 220 mislaid mobile phones collectively valued astatine astir ₹20 lakh. The recovered devices were formally handed implicit to their rightful owners by the Police Commissioner connected Tuesday.
