Panjab Cordon & Search Operations in Last 3 Years
Executive Summary
Since coming to power in 2022 on a promise to eradicate drugs, Punjab's AAP government has conducted dozens of large-scale Cordon and Search Operations across the state. This tracker documents those operations and their expanding scope.
Photo by PTI
Before 2022 Panjab elections, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) promised to eradicate drugs from the state in six months. Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann-led AAP came to power in Panjab in March 2022. Since then, the Panjab police has launched at least 39 reported Cordon and Search Operations (CASO) to arrest social, political and farmer activists; control drugs, apprehend gangsters, and recover weapons. Media reports say CASOs are of two types: state-wide and local. However, CASO details are not available on either government or police websites.
On 28 Feb 2025, CM Mann re-declared the ‘War on Drugs’. The govt. started bulldozing homes of alleged peddlers, raiding citizens in hundreds and arresting them, and filing First Information Reports (FIR). Below is a partial list of CASOs in the last three years.
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