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Drug peddlers use public transport now

Traffickers are now using public transport to push drugs into the city.

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Drug traffickers are not using the traditional method to peddle drugs anymore. Traffickers are now using public transport to push drugs into the city. Senior police officials said that peddlers now travel in buses and trains, carrying drugs such as charas and ganja in school bags to avoid suspicion.

An official of the Ahmedabad city crime branch told DNA, "We have found in the cases that we have investigated that peddlers generally move around as passengers and carry drugs in bags so that nobody has any suspicion about them. For instance, a peddler sits as a passenger in a train from Surat and commutes till Vadodara after which he distributes  drugs."

Sources close to the development said that drugs are now being brought to the city from neighbouring states. A senior official said, "Drugs are now being peddled mainly through states such as Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. We have found that the flow of drugs is mainly from these states."

This is different from how drugs were peddled earlier, sources said. "Earlier, drugs were routed through Kashmir and Afghanistan, i.e. local drug peddlers were in touch with international drug syndicates. Now, it's mainly through neighbouring states that drugs are being peddled."

Special public prosecutor Sudhir Brahmbhatt said that the problem with drug-related cases is that often the main accused is not nabbed. He said, "The prosecution case often becomes weak when it is noticed that the investigating agency has not followed mandatory provisions in the case." Sources said that the main accused is never nabbed in many narcotic cases, because of which the source of drugs cannot be found.

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