Shimla, Sept. 12 -- Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has said that those who have amassed crores of rupees in illegal wealth through the drug trade will now have to account for their ill-gotten assets. He said that luxurious houses, hotels, shops, land, cash and expensive vehicles acquired through drug trafficking have, in fact, been built at the cost of the hard-working people.

"Those who built luxurious houses, purchased hotels, shops and acquired expensive vehicles by selling drugs must understand that this money belongs to the hard-working people, the poor and those families whose children have been trapped in the web of addiction. This money was taken from them and is now being recovered," the Chief Mini...