Hyderabad: Hyderabad police is yet to come up with a concrete plan to check repeat of foreign offenders jumping bail.
The police usually opens suspect sheets and history sheets on regular native offenders to keep a watch on them. Cops book them under the Preventive Detention Act in order to keep them inside prison for extended periods. No such action has been done in the case of foreign offenders.
In 2015, senior police officials had proposed booking repeat foreign offenders involved in multiple cases under the narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances act, under the PD Act. Nothing has happened so far.
Another way to curb this situation is to deport offenders to their native countries. Officials say deportation is difficult for the police. It comes down to a matter of bilateral relationship between India and a foreign country.
With involvement of embassies, deportation becomes a lengthy and sometimes unsuccessful method. “It takes a long time to process things. In this year, the city police has not approached the central government to deport any offender so far,” said an official from CCS.
After an arrest, police usually seizes the passports of foreign drug peddlers. But, repeat offenders usually leave the passport and continue with their illegal activities.
“We are now again proposing to invoke the PD Act against these offenders so that they remain behind the bars for a long time without bail. Since the number of cases has increased, this time, the PD Act might be invoked on them,” said task force DCP Limba Reddy about the four repeat offenders arrested recently.
