Key Points:
- NCB may aim Delhi for the next Drug raid.
- The drug issue is in focus due to the death of Bollywood Actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
- Almost 20 people have been caught by the NCB as a part of the Drug Web.
- Delhi was among the small group of states that contributed MORE THAN HALF of the country’s 77 lakh problem Opioid users.
- Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh were the others among the group.
- India’s drug problem is revealed in a survey where 2.1% of the country’s population used opioids, thrice the global average of 0.7% and, four times Asia’s 0.46%.
After catching drug dealers in Mumbai, Delhi is the new bull’s eye for the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). The raids that NCB recently did along with the investigation have shown that Mumbai is the home for the drugs used in a few cases.
Drugs has been a hot topic since the death of Actor Sushant Singh Rajput. More than a few Bollywood A-listers and politicians including actor Rhea Chakraborty have been summoned by the Narcotics Bureau for questioning about the matter. Almost 20 people have been caught by the NCB as a part of the Drug Web.
Without elaborating much on the topic, the official said, “We will focus on Delhi too.” The statement suggested that NCB might hunt down dealers in Delhi like they successfully did in Mumbai and go up the chain right to the cartels that supply drugs to the city.
The Mumbai case started with information about the purchase of illegal drugs by one person leading to 20 others in the net.
According to a nationwide survey on Drug Consumption that was released by the Government in 2019, Delhi was among the small group of states that contributed MORE THAN HALF of the country’s 77 lakh problem Opioid users. Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh were the others among the group.
The survey also revealed that 2.1% of the country’s population used opioids, thrice the global average of 0.7% and, four times Asia’s 0.46%.
If 20 lakh people consume 0.5-gram Heroin every day, the average consumption daily becomes 1000 kgs per day, the NCB estimated. This means there is a demand for a minimum 360 tonnes of retail quality or 36 tonnes of wholesale (relatively pure) quality of heroin per year. The international value of this requirement of the wholesale quality of heroin comes to Rs 1,44,000 crore.
This survey exposes India’s drug problem which is larger than it seems.
