Women in Punjab taking over the drug trade

Women in Punjab appear to be taking over the drug kingdom. A 47-year-old woman is behind bars for after a local court found her guilty of possessing 500-Kg of intoxicating powder and poppy husk. She was booked under the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and is one among 513 such women, booked under the NDPS Act in the state.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 26 June 2015.

As per records, 173 women had been arrested and convicted last year alone. Before to that, in 2013, the number caught was only 43 – and, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the remaining 340 are undertrials.
Most of the women (38) are lodged in Amritsar jails because the heroin is entering the state from the Pakistan border.
The number of men caught in narcotics smugglers is 11,400 locked in Punjab jails. However, Punjab is a male-dominated state where the sex ratio is 895 women per 1,000 men as per 2011 census. Hence, when 500 women are in jail for allegedly running drug rackets, it is a matter of concern.
Many of these women have wealth that run to crores of rupees.
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