Chandigarh: Underlining his government’s zero-tolerance policy towards drugs, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday approved a Reward Policy to encourage information and inputs leading to the recovery of drugs under the NDPS Act.
The Chief Minister termed it an important step towards motivating people to play a proactive role in helping the government in cracking down on drug smugglers and traffickers. The policy will recognise government servants/informers/sources for their role in providing inputs leading to the recovery of the substantial quantity of drugs and in the successful implementation of various provisions of the Narcotic Drugs And Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985 and PIT NDPS Act, 1988, according to Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta. The quantum of reward for successful investigation, prosecution, forfeiture of illegally acquired property, preventive detention and other significant anti-drug work shall be decided on a case-to-case basis.
Persons eligible for the reward under the policy would include informers whose information leads to seizure of narcotics drugs/ psychotropic substances/controlled substance and forfeiture of illegally acquired property under Chapter V-A of NDPS Act, 1985. Other eligible categories would comprise the officers/officials of State Government or Central Government such as Police, Prosecutors, Officers of enforcement agencies of Government of India, who make seizures of narcotics drugs/psychotropic substances/controlled substances or conduct a successful investigation under the NDPS Act, 1985, or ensure successful prosecution or achieve successful forfeiture of illegally acquired property under Chapter V-A of NDPS Act, 1985 or achieve successful preventive detention under PIT NDPS Act, 1988 or any other achievement considered fit for grant of cash reward by ADGP/STF and DGP/Punjab, revealed Gupta.