Shimla, May 6 -- In a decisive escalation of the statewide anti-drug campaign under the Chief Minister's 'Anti-Chitta Jan Andolan', the Himachal Pradesh Police has intensified its preventive enforcement strategy by invoking the provisions of the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PIT NDPS) Act, 1988 against habitual narcotics traffickers operating across the State.

According to a statement released by the Himachal Pradesh Police Headquarters, acting on sustained intelligence gathering, technical surveillance, criminal profiling, and investigation into backward and forward linkages of organised drug syndicates, HP Police secured and executed 15 preventive detention orders issued by the competent a...