Chandigarh, Nov. 22 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has sought a detailed response from the Punjab government on a plea claiming "threat to existential crisis" of the state due to drugs menace.

"The larger question of the drug problem in Punjab needs to be dealt with, and, therefore, the State is directed to file a para wise reply to this petition within a period of three weeks," the bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry said, while deferring the hearing for December 10.

The petition primarily dealt with reports that a five-month-old child was allegedly sold by his drug-addict parents for Rs.1.8 lakh and a criminal case was registered in Mansa. To this, the government has informed the court on Friday that both ...