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Delhi Police alarmed with rise in number of women drug operators
New Delhi, June 22: The race to prove that women are not far behind men in any respect seems to have taken an ugly turn with the fair sex also competing with the masculine gender in the drug peddling business in the national capital, as the number of those arrested in the activity has doubled.
New Delhi, June 22: The race to prove that women are not far behind men in any respect seems to have taken an ugly turn with the fair sex also competing with the masculine gender in the drug peddling business in the national capital, as the number of those arrested in the activity has doubled.
"The involvement of women in drug trafficking has gone up
to alarming proportions with the number of women operators
arrested in the first six months of this year exceeding the
total of the entire last year," Deputy Commissioner of Police
(Narcotics and Crime Prevention) D L Kashyap told.
The proportion of the problem can be understood by the fact that almost 20 per cent of those arrested till date this year were women, he said, adding the same was as low as seven per cent and eight per cent in 2002 and 2001 respectively.
According to departmental figures, out of 76 persons arrested this year, 14 are women, while out of 167 people apprehended in 2002 only 12 were women. In 2001, only eight women were nabbed in the drive against drug trafficking, he said.
Pointing out that this trend was the direct outcome of the department`s crackdown on the "trade" in the past couple of years, Kashyap said most of the "known" drug traffickers have fled to nearby towns in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana and were operating through women carriers.
"The majority of women in drug trafficking belong to the families, which have been traditionally involved in this illegal trade and have taken the onus of continuing it after the men were either arrested or forced to flee," he said.
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The proportion of the problem can be understood by the fact that almost 20 per cent of those arrested till date this year were women, he said, adding the same was as low as seven per cent and eight per cent in 2002 and 2001 respectively.
According to departmental figures, out of 76 persons arrested this year, 14 are women, while out of 167 people apprehended in 2002 only 12 were women. In 2001, only eight women were nabbed in the drive against drug trafficking, he said.
Pointing out that this trend was the direct outcome of the department`s crackdown on the "trade" in the past couple of years, Kashyap said most of the "known" drug traffickers have fled to nearby towns in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana and were operating through women carriers.
"The majority of women in drug trafficking belong to the families, which have been traditionally involved in this illegal trade and have taken the onus of continuing it after the men were either arrested or forced to flee," he said.
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