'Adverse Effect On Young Generation Now-A-Days': Madhya Pradesh High Court Dismisses Drug Peddlers' Bail Pleas
Citing increase in drug menace in the state and its adverse effect on younger generations, the Madhya Pradesh High Court dismissed at least three bail applications filed by alleged drug peddlers last week. "Looking to the increasing number of such cases in society and its adverse effect on the young generation now-a-days, I do not find it a fit case to release the applicant on...
Citing increase in drug menace in the state and its adverse effect on younger generations, the Madhya Pradesh High Court dismissed at least three bail applications filed by alleged drug peddlers last week.
"Looking to the increasing number of such cases in society and its adverse effect on the young generation now-a-days, I do not find it a fit case to release the applicant on bail," Justice Anjuli Palo observed while dismissing the three applications.
The Judge heavily relied on the Supreme Court's recent observations in Gurudev Singh v. State of Punjab where persons dealing in narcotic drugs were dubbed as "hazard" to the society.
The Top Court had said,
"in a murder case, the accused commits murder of one or two persons, while those persons who are dealing in narcotic drugs are instruments in causing death or in inflicting death blow to number of innocent young victims who are vulnerable; it cause deleterious effects and deadly impact on the society; they are hazard to the society."
The Top Court had further observed that organized activities of the underworld and the clandestine smuggling of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances into this country and illegal trafficking in such drugs and substances shall lay to drug addiction among a sizeable section of the public, particularly the adolescents and students of both sexes and the menace has assumed serious and alarming proportions in the recent years.
In this backdrop, the bail pleas of accused persons— Veeru Sonkar, Jayant Rai and Rakesh Mishra were rejected. The first two accused have been booked under Section 328 (Causing hurt by means of poison, etc.) of IPC and provisions of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, for possession of 30 bottles of Pheniramine Maleat injection Park Avil-10 ML and 30 white coloured syringe of Buprenorphine injection.
Mishra has been booked under IPC and under the MP Drugs Control Act, 1949 for possession of 31 bottles of Onrex Cough Syrup containing 10 mg of Codeine Phosphate, without license.