Under the special campaign launched by the State police from March 21, 634 absconders involved in several crimes have been arrested by April 10, informed Ram Singh Meena, Additional Director General of Police (law and order).
Taking note of the State Government’s priority to nab the fugitives eluding arrests aside from stopping crimes against women, drug peddling and the like, the state director general of police MA Ganapathy had launched the special one- month drive in all the districts of the state starting from Mach 21.
Besides, 18 hardened criminals carrying bounties on them have been arrested too in course of the special drives that would end on April 21, said Meena. He added that 18 heinous crime cases have been cracked too by the district police forces.
Meena further said that 71 drug peddlers selling narcotics to the students and the youths have been arrested with 68 cases being lodged in the police stations concerned.
He said that 9.585 kgs of hashish, 176.53 grams of smacks, 25.3 kgs of marijuana and 5, 200 poppy husks have been recovered. 347 cases have been registered under Excise Act and 366 persons allegedly involved in supply of liquors illegally have been arrested.
A total of 28336 bottles and 3630 litres of illegal liquor have been seized from the possession of the accused. 17 land fraud cases have been cracked and 184 complaints have been acted upon. 342 public complaints have been received through various mediums and 201 of them have been solved.
A total of 28 complaints have been received through toll free number of the Police Headquarters and all of them have been solved, Meena informed.