Staff Reporter

Shillong, Sept 19: Opposition AITC leader and former chief minister Mukul Sangma today sought to know the status of the drugs seized by the State police.

“What happened to the drugs seized by the police during the different occasions?” Sangma asked while raising a supplementary query during the question hour in he Assembly.

He said usually, the state police used to inform the public as to what has been done to such seizures.

Sangma also said petty peddlers are being arrested but who are the kingpins? He further asserted the need to speed up the charge sheeting of NDPS-related cases.

In his reply, deputy chief minister in-charge home (police) Prestone Tynsong said the menace of drugs in Meghalaya is not only a state problem but is also a national and an international problem.

“As far as the state government is concerned, we have now recently notified the advisory board under the PITNDPS to deal with those arrested people, who deal with the supply or who are involved in the spreading of drugs throughout the state,” he said.

“This advisory board is in place. Once police arrested those people, the criminals cannot just easily come out of the jail as according to the board they can even recommend to 2 years time (of imprisonment),” Tynsong added.