Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Feb 13: The Division Bench of High Court has upheld writ court judgment challenging the order of detention against a hard-core drug peddler citing that the J&K is bordering hostile neighbouring countries pushing drugs to this part of the country.
Jehangir Ahmad Dar of Tulkhun, Bijbehara of Anantnag had approached the writ court challenging the order of his detention passed by the Divisional Commissioner Kashmir and the writ court in the month of December 2022 dismissed his plea.
He challenged the verdict of writ court in an appeal before the Division Bench and the bench headed by Chief Justice N Kotiswar Singh while upholding the writ court judgment as well as his detention said the geo-political location of J&K bordering hostile neighbouring countries, which have been pushing drugs to this part of the country not only for illegal trade but to use the proceeds thereof in the sustenance of cross border terrorism.
Court said the menace of drugs in this part of the country has to be seriously looked into having its wider ramifications as smuggling and trade of the narcotics will not only destabilize the economy of the area but shall also be detrimental to the national interest if the proceeds of illegal trade are used to sustain the terrorism.
“We do not find any perversity or illegality in the judgment passed by the Single Judge, as all the important aspects as were required had been dealt with. The appeal is found to be without any merit and substance and is, thus, dismissed along with pending applications”, DB concluded.
The activities of the appellant-Dar authorities posed a serious threat to the health and welfare of the people of the area as his designs and conducts to lure the youth and school going children into menace of drugs have made the life of peace living citizens vulnerable and caused scare among their parents.
“The report received from the field agencies depicted that the appellant was associated and clandestinely dealing in illegal business of narcotic substances and out of the illegal trade, he had been exploiting the immature minds of the younger generation by making them habitual addicts and the drug mafia with which the appellant is associated poses a great threat to the society as from the proceeds from the drugs sale, other criminal activities can also be financed”, read the judgment of the DB.
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