In its ongoing campaign under the ‘War against Drugs’, Ferozepur Police and District Administration today demolished the house of a drug paddler who is already facing three cases and still absconding. The action was initiated in Jhuge Hazara village, where the accused had illegally built a house and had also encroached upon one acre of land of the Forest Department.
SSP Ferozepur Bhupinder Singh Sidhu said that the accused has been identified as Gurcharan Singh, who built an illegal house in the village falling under the Sadar police station of Ferozepur.
A JCB Machine was pressed into service by the administration, which razed the house. He said that now the one-acre land encroached upon by the accused too would be released soon.
He further said that the action is taken on the directions of Chief Minister Punjab Bhagwant Singh Mann and DGP Punjab Gaurav Yadav. He added that a large number of drug smugglers have already been arrested recently by Ferozepur Police under this ongoing campaign.
He said that action would be taken against every drug dealer who is selling drugs in the district. He instructed the drug sellers to leave this work; otherwise, similar actions would be taken in the future, and the property made with the illegal money would be confiscated or razed to the ground.
Meanwhile, a large number of villagers who witnessed the demolition drive appreciated the initiative taken by the Punjab government. They said that the action taken against drug peddlers is highly commendable. They hope that such actions will completely eradicate the menace of drugs in the coming days in Punjab.