The Mathura police in a report submitted to a special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (1985) court stated that rats ate over 5oo kg of confiscated marijuana stored in the warehouses of Shergarh and Highway police station.

Baramulla (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], February 17 (ANI): Baramulla Police on Wednesday arrested four drug peddlers for dealing in illegal drugs and recovered 385 grams of Charas and five kilograms of poppy straw from them.

Mumbai Jan 24 PTI The Anti Narcotics Cell of Mumbai Crime Branch arrested three people in two raids and seized ganja and mephedrone from them an official said on Monday The raids were conducted on Sunday by the Kandivali and Ghatkopar units of the ANC he added In a raid carried out on Ghatkopar-Andheri Link road two people identified as Imran Ansari 42 and Ismail Sheikh 21 were held with 115 kilograms of ganja brought from Odisha and a car cumulatively valued at Rs 3375 lakh a Kandivali ANC unit official said In the second raid one Saif Chowdhary was held from Jijamata Nagar in Mahul with mephedrone worth Rs 18 lakh a Ghatkopar ANC unit official said Cases under the NDPS Act have been registered and further probe to unravel the peddling network was underway officials said PTI ZA BNM BNM BNM

New Delhi Jan 19 PTI The Delhi High Court Wednesday sought response of the Centre on a plea challenging the expansion of the definition of a drug under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances NDPS Act A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notice to the Centre and asked it to respond to the petition which will be taken up for hearing next on February 28 The petitioner a resident of Kerala has challenged two notifications of 2001 and 2009 issued by the Ministry of Finance under the NDPS Act saying the notifications were issued in excess of conferred authority and are ultra vires to the law Petitioner Rajeev T M in the plea submitted that the two notifications under Section 2 viia and 2 xxiiia of the NDPS Act have the effect of creating a new category of offence by penalising the preparation of a drug at par with the drug itself There is no rational nexus between the classification created by these notifications and the object of the NDPS Act and therefore there is a violation of Article 14 equality before law of the Constitution The notifications seek to create a classification of drug users and quantities based on the total weight of the drug including the weight of neutral material and not on the weight of the pure drug content which is the correct indicator of whether a quantity is a commercial quantity or a small quantity intended for personal consumption advocate J Sai Deepak representing the petitioner submitted The plea said if the notifications are applied 4 grams of heroin would be a small quantity but if an addict mixes them with 50 kgs of powdered sugar then the same would be a commercial quantity that has ramifications as grave as incarceration up to 20 years The application of the notifications creates a situation where there would be no rational nexus between this aforesaid objective of rationalising sentencing by taking a reformative approach towards treating addicts and the proposed classification which places both addicts and drug traffickers on even footing as long as the addict dilutes their drug more than the trafficker it said while seeking to quash the two notifications The plea said the act of adding the weight of a neutral substance to the weight of pure drug content for determining the weight of small quantity or commercial quantity is unreasonable and arbitrary and thus is violative of Article 14 of the Constitution It further said the notifications violate Article 21 protection of life and personal liberty also because it enhances the criminalisation of possession of a drug if it is mixed with enough neutral material Whereas as per the NDPS Act a person would be criminalised at the level of small quantity for possession of say 4 grams of heroin the notifications enhance this criminalisation to the level of commercial quantity which increases the incarceration to as much as 20 years if the said 4 grams of heroin is diluted by the addition of neutral material Therefore this is violative of Article 21 as it severely affects the personal liberty and right to life of the petitioner it said It contended that the NDPS Act requires only the pure narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances to be considered for determining quantities and therefore the notifications are wrong The plea said the petitioner is facing prosecution in a case under the NDPS Act and is presently out on bail PTI SKV SKV RKS RKS

New Delhi [India], December 29 (ANI): In a rare case, the Delhi customs have arrested a Ugandan woman at Delhi airport allegedly with around one kilogram of cocaine in her stomach, said a senior Customs official on Wednesday.

New Delhi Nov 27 PTI Under its month-long drug de-addiction campaign the northwest district of Delhi Police admitted 20 people to rehabilitation centres of whom three have fully recovered and been discharged officials said on Saturday These three fully recovered men are now creating awareness and helping police personnel in motivating addicted people to go to rehabilitation centres with an aim to eradicate the menace of drugs from the society they said Under the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan the northwest district initiated the month-long drug de-addiction campaign wherein it identified and counselled people often caught with drugs and those booked under the NDPS Act they said In the past one month more than 12 people were arrested with illicit drugs while 18 others were arrested under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act Over 430 people have been booked under the COTPA this year police officials said Many of these offenders are young boys from financially weaker backgrounds they said Such people were counselled to stay at the rehab centres for a few months Among the 20 such people who were admitted three of them have been discharged while several others are undergoing therapy We are seeing a change in people and this will help us make our area drug free a senior police officer said We wanted to work towards a drug-free society When we analysed our district we found that though there arent many gangs operating here but there are many individuals who are peddling and consuming drugs We started with awareness drives and invited college students and NGOs to hold nukkad nataks said Usha Rangnani Deputy Commissioner of Police Northwest District police teams have been working with rehab centres and skill training centres to create awareness provide medical help and jobs to the youth she said PTI AMP SMN SMN

Madhya Pradesh, November 21: Executive director of e-commerce giant Amazon has been booked under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in connection with the alleged online sale of ganja. Madhya Pradesh: Amazon India Executive Booked Under NDPS Act for Alleged Online Ganja Sale As per the report published by Hindustan Times, the action […]