Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 18

Drug menace has become a social malady, it has attained monstrous proportion and is tearing families apart, a special court here observed while sentencing a woman to 10 years rigorous imprisonment in a drug case.

Dr Rajneesh, Judge, Special Court, held Nirmla guilty under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and also imposed a fine of Rs2.50 lakh on her.

Nirmla was arrested in 2018 following a tip-off that she was selling the banned drugs.

The police recovered 200-gm heroin and 15 buprenorphine injections from her possession.

The court convicted Nirmla for the commission of offence under Section 21(b) read with Section 31(1) and 22 (c) of the NDPS Act.

“The sale and consumption of narcotics in an illegal manner is immensely affecting society. Its addiction destroys the trait of appreciation of a person, who cannot differentiate between fair and unfair. The need of the hour is to choke the supply of the drugs and to curb it with heady hands,” the court observed.