Respond to plea on drug addicts, govt told
16 May 2018 5:23 AM IST
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Tuesday asked the Aam Aadmi Party-led government and others to file a response on a plea seeking formulation of proper schemes to provide medical treatment, nutrition, education and rehabilitation centres for drug addicts in the national Capital. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar issued notices to the Delhi government, the Director of Social Welfare Department and the Commissioner of Police and listed the matter for further hearing on August 29.
The plea filed by a social activist Salak Chand Jain through advocate J.K. Gupta has sought the court's direction on the allocation of sufficient funds to set up rehabilitation centres and for the NGOs working to improve the livelihood of drug addicts. There is a lack of rehabilitation centres and there is no mechanism to admit the drug addicts to such centres and hospitals for treatment, the plea said. The petitioner told the court that most of the drug addicts were "homeless, helpless and abandoned by their families". He said the addicts were allegedly involved in petty thefts, burglaries and chain-snatching to buy drugs and that such actions created insecurity in residential areas. The petitioner requested the court to issue a direction to form police patrol parties in different localities under the supervision of the concerned Station House Officer to nab the drug addicts.
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