Man Jailed for 8 Years for Possessing Heroin

A man has been sent to eight years in jail for possessing 500 gm of heroin by a Delhi court which observed that drug menace is a serious threat to society and has ill effects on minors and youths.

Additional Sessions Judge Anuradha Shukla Bhardwaj refused to show any leniency to convict Sanjeev Chand Saxena, a resident of Uttar Pradesh.

"Though the convict has pleaded leniency on grounds of family conditions; considering the serious threat to the society by the drug menace and its ill effect on the people including minor children and youth, I do not think his case deserves leniency on pleaded grounds," the judge said.

According to the prosecution, the narcotic cell received an information on August 12, 2007, about Saxena's involvement in supply of heroin from Badayun to Delhi.

It said Saxena was expected to come to Geeta Colony in east Delhi in the evening with huge quantity of heroin.

A raiding team went to Geeta Colony and with the help of the informer, Saxena was caught from the spot along with a packet containing drugs.

The weight of the recovered material was 500 gm.

During the trial, Saxena claimed that he was falsely implicated in the case. He alleged that he was picked from his readymade garment factory in Kailash Nagar here on the evening of October 6, 2007.

He had sought a lenient view on the ground that he was the sole bread earner in the family comprising his wife, children and parents and he had already spent a year in jail during the pendency of the trial.

The prosecutor, however, had sought imposition of severe punishment saying such kind of offences are on the rise in society.