Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, June 5 : The Fast Track Court Budgam today denied to grant bail to two persons involved in drug trafficking by observing that the drug menace is a slow poison destroying not only the individual but the society.
The court of Additional Sessions Judge (Fast Track Court) Budgam presided by Yahaya Firdous dismissed the bail plea of two drug peddlers, Javid Ahmad Lone and Shakir Rashid Dar of Humhama Budgam, citing that the applicants have not approached the court with clean hands.
The court while dismissing both the bail applications said the drug peddlers have changed their modus operandi, as the courts are taking lenient view in enlarging the drug peddlers on bail where the recovered contraband is either intermediate or small in quantity.
“The drug peddlers, very cleverly, are committing such acts in piece meals in order to save themselves from falling under commercial quantities, therefore requiring a check from all the stakeholders. Therefore, every citizen must come forward with open heart to take a pledge to eradicate this menace to save the nation”, the court observed.
With regard to the ongoing 100 days Nasha Mukt Abhiyan, the court said that in view of the operation by the Government against the drug menace requires a joint effort by all stakeholders to eradicate the menace of drugs. “It is expected that each individual of the society must come forward to extend full support to all the agencies and the stakeholders dealing with the eradication of the drug menace”, the court recorded.
The court added that the offences committed by the drug peddlers are heinous and grave in nature than an offence of murder, because in case of a murder, the accused commits murder of one or two individuals or even more, whereas, the drug peddlers are instrumental in causing death or inflicting death blow to a number of vulnerable innocent persons in the same manner as the termite collapses huge infrastructure without noticing the same.
“If the court would only consider that the alleged recovery is intermediate and the accused requires to be enlarged on bail, such sympathy would encourage the accused for committing more and more offences pertaining to NDPS Act which has become a menace”, read the order.
The court took serious note on filing of false affidavit by the accused concealing the fact that two FIRs one at police station Budgam and another at police station Bari Brahmana Jammu for the commission of crime under NDPS Act stands registered against the accused-Lone and FIR 81/2023 stands registered at police station Budgam against the accused-Dar.
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