Overview
- A video that circulated widely on social media led police to intervene and have the child placed in a de-addiction centre for initial care, sources reported.
- Doctors said medical tests will be carried out to determine what substances the child was exposed to and to assess short- and long-term health needs.
- Police say they are investigating who supplied the drugs and how the children obtained them; later reporting identified two brothers aged 9 and 12 and said an alleged peddler was arrested in the case.
- Separately, a family in the Kapurthala district has reported the suspected overdose death of a 20-year-old, though the cause has not been independently confirmed.
- The episode has intensified public concern about narcotics reaching young people in Punjab and renewed calls for coordinated action by police, health services, schools and local authorities to prevent and treat addiction.