Nalco Nagar- A Paradise For Drug Peddlers?

By SANTOSH MOHANTY

The Aluminium city, Nalco Nagar, has of late become a paradise for drug peddlers. Most of the brown surgar peddlers were nabbed by police from Girang, Kandasar, Kaniabeda, Balaramprasad , Talcher and Angul which are located in close proximity to Nalco Nagar.

Latest reports said that the drug mafia from Balasore clandestinely operate their network through Dhenkanal to supply the banned drug to potential customers who are largely youngsters and belived to the wards of highly rich businessmen and high salaried employees of industrial concerns in Nalco Nagar,  Talcher and in the coal belt.

Angul, Nalco Nagar and Dhenkanal police have successfully nabbed the drug peddlers in raids and operations conducted since January this year with the seizure of nearly 300 grams of brown sugar worth over Rs 30 lakh. Police sources said the operation to nab drug peddlers will continue till the industrial regions of Angul district are flushed out of the drug mafia dealing in brown sugar. They emphasized that it has also become the moral responsibility of public at large to inform the police if they come across such suspicious elements operating in the region.

Sources said it is very difficult to determine the number of drug peddlers operating in Nalco Nagar region, Talcher and Angul as most of them engage teenagers to supply the contraband to the customers clandestinely. They said these teenagers successfully evade the watchful eyes of police and successfully carry out the operation. The seizure of brown sugar might be the tip of the iceberg if one has to go by the vast network the drug mafia have successfully spread out in Angul-Talcher industrial region, the sources reasoned.