Lahore Police has arrested a woman and a rickshaw driver on suspicion of using two school-going minors to supply drugs in the city.
The police acted on a tip-off and intercepted them while the kids were going to the school with their rickshaw driver. Drugs were recovered from the schoolbags of two minors aged between eight and ten years. The police apprehended their mother and the rickshaw driver on charges of drug pedaling and transporting.
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According to the police, the minors, studying in grades one and three, were unknowingly carrying nine kilograms of drugs collectively. Their mother, Shamim, a habitual and notorious drug peddler, used them as they were the least suspected transporters.
The Punjab Police has started taking rapid action against drug peddlers, wine sellers, and those involved in immoral activities.
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On the other hand, the federal government has also joined the provincial government to take collective measures against the menace of drug trafficking. A decision in this regard was taken during a meeting of Chief Minister, Usman Buzdar, and Federal Minister for Narcotics, Brig (Retd.), Ejaz Shah, last month.
“The drug traffickers are the enemy of the whole humanity, and indiscriminate crackdown will be continued against them,” the CM affirmed.
Usman Buzdar maintained that jail was the best place for those selling drugs outside educational institutions, and action will be taken against them.
