Shillong, March 10: DGP LR Bishnoi has expressed concern that the problem of drug menace is no longer confined to urban areas but has shifted to villages across the state.
“So many youths from the villages also started taking drugs. Secondly, a few years back the problem was confined to the male population but now lots of young girls have started taking drugs,” he told reporters at a press conference on Friday.
He said police recently arrested one person from West Jaintia Hills, who stole Rs 8 lakh worth gold ornaments of his own mother. “Can you imagine? These kinds of social side effects are there and if they can quarrel with their own mother, if they can injure their own family members, then you can expect they can go to any extent.”, he said.
According to the DGP, some drug addicts told the police that they are from a very poor family and they get the drugs free of cost from the traffickers.
“So free of cost means the traffickers will give free of cost only for a few days and once they become drug addicts, the traffickers will not take care of them and what they will do, they will start stealing money from their own homes, from friends – those kinds of problems are there,” he said.
