War on Drugs: 18 FIRs registered, 1200 kanal land cleared since April Teams are constantly monitoring the situation, Excise Department. The Union Ministry informed the Parliament, citing the survey, that an estimated 108,000 men and 36,000 women had been found using marijuana in J&K, while 534,00 men and 8000 women had been caught up in the dragnet of opioids, and 1,60,000 men and 8000 women had been discovered using sedatives of various kinds. The Ministry further informed the Parliament that in J&K, 127,000 men and 7,000 women had been seen using inhalants and that a significant number of men and women were addicted to cocaine, amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS), and hallucinogens.
The law enforcement agencies and the Excise Department lodged 18 First Information Reports (FIRs) and removed 1200 kanal of land in Kashmir from poppy since April 2023 as part of the J&K government’s “act tough policy” against the drug menace which has spread its wings across J&K.
War on Drugs: Majority of the poppy is grown in Kulgam and other districts of south Kashmir, where our teams are constantly monitoring the situation,” Sharma said. “We are taking action as well as destroying the poppy wherever it is being cultivated to send a deterrent to people indulging in this thing.”
J&K Police is also taking the lead in the battle against the drug epidemic and is also at the forefront of efforts to eradicate the covert poppy growing that takes place throughout Kashmir.
A senior Police official said that illicit farming of poppy was mostly practiced in the south Kashmir districts of Anantnag, Pulwama, Shopian, and Kulgam.
