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Sheela Sunny, the owner of a beauty parlor in Chalakudy, is proof that anyone can be arrested and jailed in a drug case. It has now been proved in the Kakkanad Government Regional Chemical Examiner's Laboratory that the pieces of paper seized from Sheila's bag four months ago in the name of LSD stamps were just pieces of paper. Sheela was in jail for 72 days for keeping these pieces of paper in her bag! All these days some online and social media have been hounding Sheela and her family with false stories. What is the solution to the dishonor this woman faced? It was the hasty and immature action of the Excise investigation team that created a never-to-be-forgotten wound in this woman's life.

If a person can be jailed without establishing that the seized items are drugs, can't anyone in the future be arrested and jailed based on intelligence? Is this permissible? The government and legal experts should find a solution to this. Although Sheila told the excise team the information of some hostile relatives, they refused to listen to it or investigate the situation. Should the investigation team be saying that this was only on the grounds of having received confidential information? Describing this ordeal, Sheela told the media that "if there was a facility to commit suicide in jail, I would not have survived." Legal experts themselves agree that drug cases and POCSO cases are misused the most because of enmity. Therefore, the investigating officers should proceed to other steps after conducting the initial investigation and confirming only.

A young woman was trapped in Thiruvananthapuram when confidential information was received about ganja possession. Later, when the CCTV footage was examined, the image of a young man and his friend, who were hostile to the young woman, was found placing the ganja in her office. That case is in court now. The Irinjalakuda Excise Circle Inspector and his team who arrested Sheela, without even paying attention to the explanations, gave the news to the media with photographs that they arrested her for possession of drugs. After getting involved in the case, Sheela's source of income, the beauty parlour, was shut down. A section came up with campaigns on social media that drugs were kept to be given to girls who come to the beauty parlour. Sheela is now gearing up for legal action. The government should definitely give her compensation. This amount should be recovered from the officials who took the case irresponsibly. Only then will such incidents not recur. People's representatives should also intervene to reopen her beauty parlour.