PUNE, July 10: The Pune police will start a campaign to make its personnel aware about the case in which the additional sessions judge of a special court at Sirsa in Haryana had ordered death sentence for a narcotics trafficker in 1997.The Marathi translation of the verdict will be distributed among the constabulary and senior officials, said ACP Vishnupant Munde.Additional sessions judge Narendra Jain had ordered death to narcotics trafficker Neki Ram Kacha Ram on February 18, 1997 as per the provisions of section 31 (A) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act of 1985 after it was brought to his notice that Neki Ram was being convicted for drug trafficking for the second time.This is probably the first instance in India that death sentence has been ordered for a person convicted under NDPS Act, ACP Munde said.Neki Ram who resides at Sirsa was arrested first on October 13, 1986. Sirsa sessions judge N E Jain had sentenced him to 10-year RI and a fine of Rs 1 lakh on February 5, 1988. Neki Ram was granted bail by the High Court. He was arrested again on January 20, 1992.
