Drug racket in Punjab jail, Congress attacks Badal government

CHANDIGARH:The startling disclosures by a Kapurthala jail inmate of large scale drug trafficking within the jail premises has nailed the lies of SAD-BJP government on drug menace in the state. Contrary to assertions, the drug racket seems operating under police and political protection.Following reports of drug racket, Punjab Congress has attacked the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. Sukhpal Singh Khaira former MLA and PPCC spokesperson said that once again the jail drug racekt has exposed the utter failure of the Badal government to curb the drug menace.Khaira said that the startling disclosures made by a Kapurthala jail inmate in his telephonic conversations with Vikramjit Singh Panthe DSP(Jails), alleging large scale drug trafficking within the jail premises, has once again confirmed the deep nexus between the drug mafia-police and powerful politicians. As per the disclosures, he has stated that “Chitta” or heroin powder worth Rs. 2-3 lac was being sold daily by mafia within the jail and that the drug money was being paid to higher authorities as well.These disclosures have completely trashed, debunked and dashed to ground the tall claims being made by the Badal duo, that the government had controlled the menace of drugs in the state. Such large scale drug trafficking within the jail premises have also flattened the bogus argument of the Badal duo, that Punjab is merely a transit route for drugs coming from soft international borders of Pakistan via Afghanistan.