Chandigarh Tribune: Jalandhar: Friday,
September 16, 2016.
With the
region emerging as the hub of education institutions, foreign students have
been dominating various crimes committed here like drug peddling, rash driving
and theft etc, thereby bringing a bad name to the education institutions in
which they study.
Information
obtained by this correspondent from the Jalandhar Commissionerate regarding the
involvement of foreigners and foreign students in crime through the Right to
Information (RTI) Act has brought forth startling revelations.
In the past
one and a half year, the Jalandhar police have made huge drug recoveries from
foreigners. Among the cases registered under the Narcotics Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances Act, foreign students face many cases. In the said
period, 12 foreign citizens were booked by the Jalandhar police in various
crimes like drug peddling, rash driving, theft or cheating, of which eight
cases are of drug peddling. Among the eight foreigners booked for drug
peddling, six are students of a university in Phagwara.
The big
catch
The city
police arrested one Agu Emmanuel (30) and a girl Okoh Precious (23), a native
of Nigeria, with a big catch of heroin worth several crores on June 14, 2016.
Then the fact had come to the fore that the duo was also supplying drugs to
students in the region. Suspecting their connection with the international
smugglers, Central agencies, too, had interrogated them.
6 students of
LPU caught under NDPS Act: RTI Act
As per the
RTI reply by the city police crime branch, six students of Lovely Professional
University (LPU), Phagwara, were nabbed under the NDPS Act, while three in
others crimes.
The students
nabbed for drug peddling were Kwizera Fabrice of Rwanda, Kingsly of Seirra
Leona, Ndikumana Karani Jackson of Nigeria, Thomas Liberty Atoma alias Jimmy of
Nigeria, Rimond of Zimbian and Nkumba Kifufya of Zimbian. While the university
student, named Criscian of Tanzania was nabbed for rash driving, Didier Irakarama
and Alian Sivarinzi were nabbed for house theft. Aman Mittal, deputy director
(media), categorically denied that nabbed foreigners were students of the LPU
and said they could possibly the students of other institutes. “The police
should inquire about the institute before mentioning the name of the institute
in the case file. Whenever any African student is nabbed, it is considered that
the same could be a student of the LPU which is totally wrong,” Mittal added.
The university regularly holds induction and counselling programmes to
discourage the students from being part of any wrong practices, otherwise the
university would take strict action against them, he said.
48 NRIs
wanted to police in various crimes
As many as 48
NRIs are wanted by the city police in various crimes like criminal conspiracy,
cheating, culpable homicide, attempt to murder, murder, dowry death, PUDA Act
etc. Fourteen NRIs, hiding in Canada, top the list, followed by six in the USA,
three each in New Zealand and the UK and one in Pakistan. The police said
look-out notices had already been issued against these NRIs.
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