LUCKNOW, Jan. 7 -- Less than a week after HT reported about narcotics sales in Lucknow, a joint task force of the Anti-Narcotics Team, SWAT, surveillance and local police stations conducted a special citywide operation at 30 such shady places across all five zones on Monday.

"As many as 100 suspected drug peddlers have been identified and six arrested during the first-phase drive. "Six people arrested from the spot while selling narcotics are being questioned at different police stations," said joint commissioner of police (law & order) Bablu Kumar, who supervised the drive being touted as the biggest-ever crackdown against narcotics in the state capital.

"Teams raided 30 identified locations, including major public areas and commercial...