Shimla, Dec. 26 -- The Himachal Pradesh government has launched an aggressive state-wide campaign to eradicate chitta (heroin) and other narcotics. Shimla district police have developed a new preventive policing model aimed at choking drug supply chains at the street level.

Under this model, the district police have identified nearly 50 frequent drug traffickers and have forwarded around 25-30 proposals to the state Home Department seeking their preventive detention under the PIT-NDPS Act, 1988.

Superintendent of Police, Shimla district, Sanjeev Kumar Gandhi, told ANI that the initiative is designed to neutralise habitual offenders who repeatedly come out on bail and exploit legal loopholes to continue drug trafficking, particularly tar...