Shimla, Feb. 22 -- In a major anti-drug operation, Shimla district police have detained 18 habitual and organised drug peddlers under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PIT NDPS) Act, 1988 over the past 25 days, sending them to jail for three months as part of a preventive crackdown.

Police said that on Saturday (February 21), Jubbal police arrested two repeat offenders and shifted them to Kanda Jail under detention orders. The accused have been identified as Suresh Kumar alias Pappu, a resident of Shailapani (Badhal) in Jubbal, and Rajat Aukta alias Bunny from Guntr in old Jubbal, both facing multiple cases under the NDPS Act, 1985, involving the recovery of heroin (chitta) in separate FIRs ...