Nearly 20 women drug peddlers have been nabbed in the recent times by the Ferozepur Police in the district alone. The trend indicates women are increasingly being recruited into the drugs trade as “mules” or independent peddlers, driven by economic distress, family ties to the trade and their perceived ability to evade police scrutiny.
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An Intelligence official, pleading anonymity, said drug peddling had increasingly become a family enterprise in this region sharing border with Pakistan. In several families, women took over operations following the arrest of their men members in the government’s drive, ‘War against Drugs’.
hest number of women arrested for drug smuggling over a three-year period with over 3,000 arrests. In fact, over 10 per cent of all NDPS FIRs registered in the state now name women as accused or co-accused.
