Losing battle against drugs - National Herald

The battle against drugs requires a course correction. A ‘Drug-Mukt Bharat’ appears a distant dream and India appears to be waging a losing battle against drugs and drug mafia
India by all accounts is fighting a losing battle against drugs. Notwithstanding the bravado and recent public posturings by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), there is no evidence of any decline in the drug trade or the number of addicts. If anybody has any doubt, search for Drug Deaddiction and Rehabilitation Centres in Ahmedabad. A Google search would yield over 200,000 results, among them “100 top Rehabilitation Centres in Ahmedabad”.
There is, clearly enough, no war declared or undeclared on drugs. Although the National Investigation Agency (NIA) informed the court that it was investigating links to ‘narco terrorism’ in the heroin haul at the Mundra Port on September 11, the case looks as good as buried.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) had accidentally stumbled on the heroin valued at Rs. 21,000 crore in one of the containers ostensibly carrying talcum powder from Afghanistan. It arrested a Chennai couple, M. Sudhakar and his wife, on September 17. It arrested P. Rajakumar from Mumbai on September 26. All three were sent to jail, indicating that DRI were through interrogating them. The case, filed initially under the NDPS Act, has now been handed over to the NIA which has registered the case under UAPA and other anti-terror laws.
But the case has not led to the usual finger...

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