The Meghalaya government on Monday sought the intervention of the National Human Rights Commission to push for the creation of a sub-zonal office of the Narcotics Control Bureau here and to extend the preventive detention period under the PITNDPS Act up to three years.
The proposals were placed during a high-level meeting chaired by Deputy Chief Minister in-charge of Home (Police), Prestone Tynsong, in the presence of NHRC Special Monitor Rakesh Asthana, ex-BSF DG and former head of the NCB, who is on a three-day visit to assess the drug trafficking situation in the state.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, Social Welfare Minister Paul Lyngdoh informed that the state has already submitted a proposal for setting up an NCB sub-zonal office here and urged the NHRC to help expedite the process.