Panchkula, Sept. 27 -- In a sweeping display of coordinated law enforcement, the Haryana Police have struck simultaneously at street-level drug peddlers, illicit pharmaceutical channels, and the shadow economy of tobacco and hookah vendors encircling educational institutions across the state, a police official said on Sunday.
The operations, spearheaded by senior district commanders, have already taken a heroin supplier off the streets, dismantled a cache of over 1,000 intoxicant tablets, and triggered a stringent regulatory warning to shopkeepers and university authorities alike, signalling that the battle against substance abuse is being fought as much through preventive vigilance as through hard arrests.
In Sirsa, the dragnet closed ar...