DRUG PEDDLERS HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DESTROYED SOCIAL FABRIC OF OUR SOCIETY’: PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT

How serious the most disastrous malaise of excessive use of drugs has adversely affected not just our younger generation which is becoming more and more addicted to it but even the older generation is known all too well and reams and reams have been written on the lethal manner in which it has penetrated to the innermost core in each and every section of our society!

- SANJEEV SIROHI

It must be also mentioned here in this context that while rejecting the bail application of an accused whose disclosure had allegedly led to the recovery of about 10 kilograms of heroin, the Punjab and Haryana High Court in a learned, logical, laudable and latest judgment titled Davinder Singh Vs State of Punjab in CRM-M-10017-2021 that was pronounced as recently as on October 17, 2022 has minced just no words to unambiguously hold that the drug peddlers have successfully destroyed the social fabric of society and led youth to the wrongful path. It is drugs and drugs alone which has cut short so many promising lives and so also so many promising careers of not just so many youths but even so many film stars, sport stars and as also a range of celebrities who intentionally or unintentionally due to bad company or any other reason fall an easy vulnerable prey to this most vicious and dangerous habit which is certainly the most assured path to self destruction. No denying it! So such a disastrous menace has to be definitely nipped in the bud by dealing with it most strictly.

At the very outset, this extremely commendable, cogent, courageous and convincing judgment authored by the Single Judge Bench of Hon'ble Mr Justice Ashok Kumar Verma of High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh sets the ball in motion by first and foremost putting forth in the opening para itself that, "The petitioner has filed the present petition under Section 439 read with Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 for grant of regular bail in case FIR No.40 dated 12.03.2020 registered under Sections 21, 22, 23, 27A and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short 'the NDPS Act'); Section 3 of the Indian Passport Act, 1920 and Section 14 of the Foreigners Act, 1946 at Police Station Lopoke, District Amritsar."