Key Highlights
- “This is important if your government wants to establish credibility and resolve in the fight against drugs,” Mr.
- Jakhar said.
- “It would thus be appropriate if you, as Chief Minister, write to the honourable Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice seeking his intervention to set up a ‘time-bound’ probe by a credible agency, or even a multi-agency probe, under his supervision to uncover the end beneficiaries in the drug money trail,” he added.
- The BJP leader said that it is imperative to ‘follow the money’ in the trail, without which the exercise to root out drugs from Punjab is not only futile but a farce, and the flow of money has to be established to catch the big fish and arrest the end beneficiaries, be it politicians across party lines or officials.
- “The drug cartels in Punjab cannot thrive without some or the other kind of patronage,” he said.