Women, kids being used as drug mules: HC junks bail plea

The Punjab and Haryana high court has dismissed an anticipatory bail plea from a Mansa woman observing that women and children are being used as couriers by drug traffickers.

- Surender Sharma

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court has dismissed an anticipatory bail plea from a Mansa woman observing that women and children are being used as couriers by drug traffickers.

"The instances of women and children being used as a carrier and supplier for narcotic drugs is on the rise, especially in the state of Punjab and therefore, the contention of learned counsel for the petitioner that she is a woman aged about 31 years and has been implicated based on disclosure statements made by co-accused does not find favour with this court," the bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu said while dismissing bail plea from one Sarabjit Kaur.

The petitioner woman had approached the high court apprehending her arrest in a drugs case registered on April 3 under police station Bhikhi in Mansa district.