IMPHAL, February 28: Keeping up the heat on the cases of drug consignments raising its head in the state, representatives of various civil society organization and student bodies stormed the State Chief Minister`s official bungalow today around 2.pm demanding appropriate action to be taken up against the people involved in the drug related cases.
The protestors called for investigating the truth behind the people involved in drug trade in the state and to give punishment as per the law.
The protestors today submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister with their demands that stated that drug traffickers should be produced before the public and should be given befitting punishment; producing high profile persons involve in the illegal drug trade to be produced before the public, to take action against NAB Narcotic cell and police personals who are not doing their duty, to hand over the February 24 Pallel drug case to the Narcotic Control Bureau, to have the government reward the police personal who have detected illegal drug consignments in the state and to safeguard their welfare for the future.
One Meira Paibi protestor who was part of the group that stormed the CM`s residence said that in the past 20 years, many youths have died due to drug use and its complications, leaving behind numerous young widows.”
But the government have not taken any step to prevent illegal drug consignments in the state.
It`s only in the last few months that huge consignments of illegal drugs have been recovered and arrests made from different part of the state,” she said, maintaining that there is a high chance that high profile persons of the state are involved in the drug trade.
Meanwhile, the Poirei Leimarol Apunba Meira Paibi along with locals today staged a sit in protest at Khoyathong market shed demanding for people involved in drug trade in the state to be given their due punishment.
Earlier yesterday, a group of protestors had stormed the Tulihal airport at Imphal to protest the incidents of drug consignments surfacing at the airport and other places in the state.