Following the death of three youths during the physical test for police recruitment at Kurukshetra, allegedly due to consumption of performance-enhancing drugs, the district administration has swung into action to keep a check on the use of drugs during the recruitment drive.
Suspected overdose of performance enhancing drugs is believed to have killed three young men who were appearing for the Haryana police's physical test in Kurukshetra for recruiting constables. All the three men in their early 20s died in the past week.The police officers are now conducting raids at the venue where the physical test is being held.
A total of 50,000 constables are to be recruited in Haryana. The recruitment is being conducted by Haryana Staff Selection Commission. The physical screening started on June 15 and will continue till July 3.Around 6,000 candidates undergo the physical test every day in Kurukshetra.
The police teams have already recovered some strips of capsules, empty medicine bottles, and used syringes from the venue in the past two days
Admin to check drugs use in recruitment drive which have been sent to Government laboratories to check if they are performance enhancing in nature.
The Police have also nabbed two youth who were taking synthetic drugs for enhancing their performance during the physical test.
Following the death of three youth, the Police has directed chemists of the town not to sell any prohibited drugs to the youths and have also assigned duty to policemen in civil uniform at bus stops, parks, and other public places.
Apart from this, drug control officers have been deputed at the venue of physical test in Kurukshetra.
Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala on Friday said that shockingly, three youth have lost their lives, 397 young persons are admitted in government hospitals in drug overdose and a few thousands have been treated in private hospitals.
Drugs are openly sold at the place of police recruitment with police and civil administration remaining a mute bystander and often a complicit accomplice. Nearly 5,50,000 young persons are participating in this recruitment process. Khattar administration has utterly failed to check the drug mafia hell bent upon pushing the youth into the murky world of drug abuse, he alleged.