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Beware drug dealers! Repeat offenders to be detained without bail for 1 year in Assam: DGP

May 31: “Clean up your act, don’t repeat. ‘coz, when we catch you, you’ll be going in for a long time.” This was a clarion message given by Assam Director General of Police (DGP) Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta in his twitter handle on Monday. On assuming the post of the Chief Minister of Assam, Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma gave a call for ‘Drug Free Assam.’ Acting on this, repeat offenders now onwards will be detained without bail for a maximum period of 1 year.

DGP Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta tweeted, ” We are taking our fight for a #DrugFreeAssam a notch higher! Govt of Assam on 29 May, issued orders under Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act to take 6 high profile drug traffickers under Preventive Detention.”

In another tweet, the DGP wrote, “Bad news for them, as under this act detainees can be kept in jail for upto 1yr without bail. Our message to drug dealers is clear, “Clean up your act, don’t repeat. ‘coz, when we catch you, you’ll be going in for a long time.”

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