New Delhi: Urging the union government to intervene into the issue of drug mafias in Punjab, Congress Rajya Sabha MP Partap Singh Bajwa on Thursday wrote a letter to Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad alleging that the probe in the matter was being handled in an "inefficient manner" and the centre should look into the matter immediately.
In the letter, Bajwa said that the Special Task Force (STF) led by Harpreet Singh Sidhu had submitted the report on a police-politician-drug mafia nexus but no effort had been made by the Centre or Punjab to take forward the probe.
Congress Rajya Sabha MP Partap Singh Bajwa in New Delhi.
The Congress MP said "no action" was taken on a report submitted by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of three IPS officers."
Efforts of the SIT, and of the STF are lying in sealed covers with the Punjab and Haryana High Court, while those selling drugs have their identities protected and continue to trade. No action has been taken on any of these reports. "The names of several senior officers cropped up in this investigation as also the names of several politicians, but they are lying in the sealed cover instead of being acted upon," he said.
He urged the Narendra Modi government to look into the matter and have the covers unsealed at the earliest so that proper investigations can be done.
