RAJSHAHI, Feb 17, 2019 (BSS) – Terming the drug abuse as one of the most dangerous issues in the present society speakers at a discussion here observed that all the law-enforcing agencies should expedite vigilance against the crime.
They also stressed building a social resistance against drug abuse and its illicit trafficking aiming to protect people, particularly the young generation, from drug addiction.
The discussants came up with the observation while addressing a seminar styled “Narcotics Control Law-2018 and its Enforcement” at conference hall of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) in Rajshahi city yesterday.
CJM Court organized the seminar in association with divisional and district offices of Department of Narcotics Control (DNC). Judicial and Executive Magistrates, officer-in-charges of different police stations, representatives of BGB and RAB and lawyers joined the meeting.
Metropolitan Session Judge AHM Ilias Hossain and Additional Director of DNC Zafrullah Kazal addressed the meeting as chief and special gusts respectively with Chief Judicial Magistrate Mehedi Hassan Talukder in the chair.
Judge Ilias Hossain said around 80 percent of the drug addicts are of the age group of 15 to 30 in the country and that is why there is no alternative to taking effective steps to check drugs abuse and its illicit trade.
He says the rising crime, health hazards, murder and suicide are the major consequences of abuse of drugs like yaba, heroin, phensidyle, ganja and pathedine.
The law enforcing agencies should put in their level best efforts to combat the social menace and the community participation coupled with family and social contribution is an urgent to this end.
Zafrullah Kazal stressed arranging trilateral meeting between Bangladesh, India and Myanmar so that drugs from India and Myanmar could not enter Bangladesh.
He said a drugs-free society as well as university campus must be built at any cost to protect people, particularly the young generation, from deadly aggression of the drugs.