Women heroin suppliers in South Kolkata keep narcotics cell cops on their toes

The law enforcement agencies of the narcotics cell are unable to nab two women in South Kolkata who are believed to be the major suppliers of heroin to educational institutions in South Kolkata. They have already nabbed six such women and sent them behind bars in the last five months but two major players are giving them the slip.
The city police have sent six woman drug suppliers behind bars in the past five months, but two in the Gariahat-Kasba belt are posing a major problem for the anti-narcotics cell.
In the opinion of the police, the two women named Lakshmi and Savitri of the Gariahat-Kasba belt who live in slums, are the key links who supply heroin to top educational institutes and universities of south Kolkata. The police are now trying to break these rings.
The link to these women became evident when the detective department arrested a former mechanical engineering student of Jadavpur University who is now employed with the Damodar Valley Corporation. The impetus to nab these drug peddlers emerged following the tragic incident when an intern of SSKM hostel died due to drug injection.
The woman named Lakshmi was in the hooch trade like her mother and began drug peddling for others and finally started operating alone. She managed to rope a person who had "connections" on the Jadavpur University campus.
As per police reports, the clients include the upwardly mobile class of Kolkata, people like aspiring doctors, students and IT professionals.