AN ANALYTICAL STUDY ON ILLICIT DRUG TRAFFICKING IN INDIA AND ITS’ LEGAL COMBAT MECHANISM
Keywords:
infiltration, NDPS Act, seizure, Narcotics Control Bureau, drug abuse.Abstract
The drug menace in India is primarily impacted from the two largest opium production center in the world, Golden Crescent and Golden Triangle exploiting the proximity it shares with India and infiltrating the opiates produces in their regions inclusive of Nepal and Pakistan who supply the traditional sorts like cannabis, marijuana and hashish. However, given the alarming substance of seizure with regard to cocaine, heroin and other drugs by the Narcotics Control Bureau at an annual scale since the early 1980s’, the chief exponent factors can be considered to be drug abuse, drug-driven HIV/AIDS, licit pharmaceutical diversion, illegal cultivation, Amphetamine Type Stimulants, money laundering, human trafficking, militancy, crime and corruption across the nation, all acting as either a medium or result of drug trafficking in India. Infiltration of narcotic drugs has spread across the map of India with a maximum magnitude of its smuggle taking place in the states of Jammu & Kashmir, Rajasthan, Punjab and Gujarat. The Indian legal machinery monitors the narcotics drugs scenario primarily with the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1986 (enacted under three UN Conventions) and Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988, The Dangerous Drugs Act, 1930 along with the shield of Article 47 enshrined in the Constitution of India. Agencies like Narcotics Control Division, Narcotics Control Bureau and Central Bureau of Narcotics function to proctor illicit use of drugs within the territory of it together with some relevant judgments capturing illegal drug abuse in India. The study shall analyze how far such laws and regulatory agencies have been successful in controlling the drug menace in India and how some amendments to India’s drug policies can be considered
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