Chandigarh, May 7 -- In an unprecedented move aimed at dismantling local drug networks, the Chandigarh Police are sending two of the city's most notorious drug peddlers, including a 64-year-old woman named Bala, to Dibrugarh Central Jail in Assam.

Habitual offenders Bala, a resident of Sector 38-A, a hotbed of drug trafficking, and Deepak Mittal, alias Vicky, have been detained under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PITNDPS) Act.

Both have repeatedly returned to drug trafficking despite multiple arrests and convictions, according to police.

Police said the relocation was a strategic measure to break their local supply chains by lodging them far away from Chandigarh. The duo will be lodged...