Jammu Admin cracks down on Lakshaya de-addiction centres; unearths nexus

STATE TIMES NEWS

JAMMU: In a sensational exposure, a team of District Administration Jammu on Wednesday cracked a nexus in Lakshaya de-addiction Centres with some persons impersonating as doctors and prescribing medicines for the inmates
Teams constituted by SDM South Atul Sharma carried out raids at several such centres, including the one near Ashram Gurudwara, Digiana here and found some persons impersonating as doctors, prescribing medicines to combat Narcotic menace in the absence of registered doctors.
The team found that medicines were being procured in the name of Dr. Rohit but these were sold by Dr. Ajay Kumar, who himself is registered in some other clinic, and has hired some unauthorized and unregistered persons to sell narcotic medicines in his absence, thus playing with the life of innocent youth by making them addicted to narcotic medications
During the raid, Dr. Ajay, in a statement to team, stated that he was hired by someone to work in his place and sell the narcotic medicines, via proxy means.
The De-Addiction Centres are owned by a Punjab based group, which carry out sale of narcotic drugs in the UT via proxy means, in the absence of authorized doctors.
Majority of clinics are owned by Punjab-based Ashish Kumar and Shiva, who run narcotic centers in almost every district of Jammu and Kashmir.
During the investigation, one Nikhil Kumar was found to have been hired by Dr. Ajay Kumar as a proxy for a few weeks in one of the branches of Lakshaya de-addiction Centre, as per the statement of Dr. Ajay Kumar. The persons hired by him are neither registered nor authorized to sell narcotic medicines at Lakshaya De-Addiction Centre in the absence of a registered doctor. The matter has been taken very seriously by the administration and action has been initiated against the proxy nexus funded by Punjab based traders.
Various other centers are running on the same pattern via proxy means and during the investigation, it was found some centers in the Kathua district are actually run by Punjab-based personnel including one Sumeet Singh, through proxies, who are involved in narcotic nexus. Singh is working full time in Punjab and Haryana. The inspecting team will be conducting investigations in all Lakshaya De Addiction centres. Lakshya Rehabilitation Center is a de-addiction and rehabilitation facility with a mission to aid people from all over India in overcoming their addictions.