Even as the State Government made a clarion call to make Tripura an ‘addiction free’ State, drug menace continues to bother the society. However, with growing awareness against the menace, people are stepping forward in curbing the drug menace in the State.
In a glaring example people’s wrath against drug menace indicative of the gradually building up public opinion against the dreaded cycle of addiction, people of Battala area in Agartala on Wednesday held a number of drug addicts captive and later handed them over to the police. The locals alleged that a group of youth apparently involved in several kinds of addictions was polluting the social atmosphere of the area. “Some youth are regularly coming here who have been spotted using several kinds of intoxicants. They have been seen using injections and sometimes inhaling powder smokes. We have tolerated enough, now it is high time to drive them out of there”, a local said.
After high drama they were handed over to the police of Battala outpost. “Some of the youth tried to flee away when the locals started questioning them. They tried to hide the injections and other intoxicant stuff they were having in their possession. The locals chased them and once again brought them to the spot where they had been held at the first place”, a local added.
Police sources said, some of them used to work as peddlers. “Most of the money they raise through peddling, they use it to buy drugs for themselves. A specific case has been registered in this regard, a police official said.
Through this incident it has become evident that people have started protesting against the vicious drug nexus operating in the city and Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb’s call for “drugs free” Tripura is being reflected in the society.