Lok Sabha Question No. 918 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-02-07
Subject: Illegal Drug Trade
Ministry: HOME AFFAIRS
Asked by: PARESH RAWAL, CHANDRAKANT RAGHUNATH PATIL, PANKAJ CHOWDHARY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 918

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 7 TH   FEBRUARY, 2017/ MAGHA 18, 1938 (SAKA)

## ILLEGAL DRUG TRADE

918.

SHRI PARESH RAWAL:

SHRI C.R. PATIL:

SHRI PANKAJ CHAUDHARY:

Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  the  Government  has  taken  cognizance  of  the  large  scale illegal trade of narcotic drugs in the country;
- (b) the quantum of such drugs seized during each of the last three years and the current year, State/UT-wise;
- (c) the steps taken by the Government to check the same; and
- (d)  whether  the  Government  proposes  to  take  strict  action  against  the persons involved in this illegal trade keeping in view the adverse impact of drugs on human beings and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI HANSRAJ GANGARAM AHIR)

(a): The  Government  has  taken  cognizance  of  drug  trafficking  and appropriate actions are taken under NDPS Act,1985.

(b): The  total  narcotics  drugs  and  psychotropic  substances  seized during the last three years and current year are enclosed as Annexure-A.

## L.S.US.Q.NO. 918 FOR 02.07.2017

(c): Steps taken by the Government to prevent drug trafficking include intensive  preventive  and  interdiction  efforts  along  known  drug  routes, strict surveillance and enforcement at import and export points, increased  international  cooperation  for  exchange  of  information  and investigative  assistance  in  administering  control  over  the  movement  of Narcotic  Drugs  &  Psychotropic  Substances  and  Precursor  Chemicals, training  programmes  for  law  enforcement  officials  for  upgrading  their skills  to  combating  drug  menace,  sharing  of  real  time  information  and coordination operation with Nodal agencies of neighbouring countries and empowerment of Border Security Force, Sashastra Seema Bal and Coast Guard under the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act for making interdiction of narcotic drugs and to prevent smuggling of the same.

(d): There are adequate provisions in the NDPS Act, 1985. The crime of drug trafficking is non-bailable in nature. There are also the provisions of forfeiture of property of drug trafficker and his/her associates. Furthermore, there is capital punishment for repeated offenders.

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## State wise seizure of major drugs for the year 2016

## Qty in kgs

|                   |     ATS |   COCAINE |   EPHEDRINE/ PSEUDOEPH EDRINE | GANJA       | HASHISH   |   HEROIN |   KETAMINE |   MEPHEDR ONE | METHAQUA LONE   | OPIUM    |   POPPY HUSK & POPPY STRAW |   CBCS* (no. of bottles) |   TABLET S Of All type In No. |
|-------------------|---------|-----------|-------------------------------|-------------|-----------|----------|------------|---------------|-----------------|----------|----------------------------|--------------------------|-------------------------------|
| Andaman & Nicobar |    0    |      0    |                          0    | 17.10       | 0.00      |     0    |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 0.00     |                       0    |                        0 |                             0 |
| Andhra Pradesh    |  240.19 |      0    |                          0    | 1448.90     | 0.00      |     0    |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 0.00     |                       0    |                        0 |                          3950 |
| Arunachal Pradesh |    0    |      0    |                          0    | 2596.15     | 0.00      |     1.22 |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 5.19     |                       0    |                        0 |                             0 |
| Assam             |    0    |      0.11 |                          0.02 | 5249.52     | 0.00      |     4.01 |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 146.10   |                       4    |                   174831 |                        157673 |
| Bihar             |    0    |      0    |                          0    | 4862.25     | 55.00     |     0    |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 14.98    |                     116.2  |                    20200 |                             0 |
| Chandigarh        |    0.48 |      0    |                          0    | 61.74       | 48.88     |    16.09 |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 19.82    |                     651.78 |                        0 |                          2765 |
| Chhattisgarh      |    0    |      0    |                          0    | 8500.70     | 100.00    |     0.11 |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 26.80    |                      68.5  |                     3138 |                         19743 |
| Goa               |    0    |      0.33 |                          0    | 49.41       | 5.94      |     0    |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 3.70     |                       0    |                        0 |                             0 |
| Gujarat           | 1419.05 |      0    |                          0    | 6639.83     | 29.39     |     3.88 |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 125.54   |                    5894.53 |                        0 |                        967700 |
| Haryana           |    0    |      0.5  |                          0    | 1972.91     | 226.68    |   651.95 |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 162.10   |                    7549.16 |                        0 |                         88062 |
| Himachal Pradesh  |    0    |      0    |                          0    | 90.74       | 383.83    |     0.98 |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 26.87    |                     610.59 |                     3029 |                        132519 |
| Jammu & Kashmir   |    0    |      0    |                          0    | 126.98      | 147.66    |   173.07 |       3.6  |          0    | 0.00            | 8.61     |                    3496    |                    14932 |                         94706 |
| Jharkhand         |    0    |      0    |                          0    | 1192.47     | 0.00      |     0.12 |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 74.67    |                    1651.17 |                      100 |                             0 |
| Karnataka         |    1.38 |      2.67 |                         20    | 3652.94     | 0.28      |   252.2  |      23.85 |          0    | 29.91           | 1.85     |                       9.52 |                        0 |                             0 |
| Kerala            |    0    |      0    |                          0    | 3997.25     | 12.32     |     0.72 |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 0.03     |                       0    |                        0 |                           268 |
| Madhya Pradesh    |    0    |      0    |                          0    | 6506.51     | 88.51     |    18.6  |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 116.49   |                   17329.2  |                    19704 |                        442654 |
| Maharashtra       |    2.16 |      4.61 |                      44503    | 6293.86     | 136.00    |     7.2  |       0.09 |          0.06 | 553.13          | 3.90     |                       0    |                      294 |                           445 |
| Manipur           |    0    |      0    |                          0    | 0.00        | 0.00      |     0.43 |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 25.00    |                       0    |                        0 |                            64 |
| Meghalaya         |    0    |      0    |                          0    | 378.29      | 0.00      |     0.03 |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 0.00     |                       0    |                       96 |                           109 |
| Mizoram           |    2.01 |      0    |                         23.85 | 257.31      | 0.00      |     5.89 |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 18.87    |                       0    |                      550 |                       1882840 |
| Nagaland          |    0    |      0    |                          0    | 8605.50     | 0.00      |     1.05 |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 22.50    |                       0    |                    10038 |                        409096 |
| New Delhi         |    1.09 |      7.47 |                        426.99 | 11476.51    | 246.75    |    46    |      12.97 |        173.25 | 23519.21        | 195.36   |                     600    |                    98430 |                       1773920 |
| Orissa            |    0    |      0    |                          0    | 78273.21    | 0.00      |     0.98 |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 0.39     |                       0    |                     1996 |                             0 |
| Punjab            |    0    |      0    |                          0    | 351.81      | 105.09    |   315    |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 248.62   |                   28669    |                     5855 |                       1401353 |
| Rajasthan         |    0    |      0.02 |                          0    | 3400.52     | 56.73     |    27.27 |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 523.41   |                   43832.1  |                      681 |                         47954 |
| Tamil Nadu        |    4.07 |      3.74 |                         10.26 | 2768.56     | 0.00      |     2.33 |      25.55 |          0    | 0.45            | 0.00     |                       0    |                        0 |                         15344 |
| Uttar Pradesh     |   12.2  |      3    |                          0    | 8213.28     | 673.47    |    36.78 |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 121.17   |                    7635.15 |                        0 |                         45640 |
| Uttarakhand       |    0    |      0    |                          0    | 439.95      | 140.79    |     2.56 |       0    |          0    | 0.00            | 14.48    |                     198.76 |                        0 |                          9646 |
| West Bengal       |    0    |      0.28 |                          0    | 15198.66    | 32.33     |    31.58 |       0    |          0    | 3.84            | 109.75   |                   11667.3  |                   198233 |                          9200 |
| Total             | 1682.61 |     22.73 |                      44984.1  | 1,82,622.85 | 2,489.64  |  1600.05 |      66.06 |        173.31 | 24,106.53       | 2,016.19 |                  129983    |                   552107 |                       7505651 |

*CBCS- Codeine Based Cough Syrups Provisional data.

## State-wise Seizures of major drugs for the year of 2015

## Qty. in Kgs

|                   |    ATS | COCAINE   |   EPHEDRINE/ PSEUDOEPHEDRINE |    GANJA |   HASHISH | HEROIN   |   KETAMINE | MEPHE DRONE   |   METHAQ UAL0NE |   OPIUM |   CBCS (no. of bottles) |   POPPY HUSK & POPPY STRAW |   TABLETS Of All type In No. |
|-------------------|--------|-----------|------------------------------|----------|-----------|----------|------------|---------------|-----------------|---------|-------------------------|----------------------------|------------------------------|
| Andaman & Nicobar |   0    | 0.00      |                         0    |    26.44 |      0    | 0.00     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |    0    |                     392 |                       0    |                           94 |
| Andhra Pradesh    |   0    | 0.79      |                        20    |     0    |      0    | 1 .06    |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |    0    |                       0 |                       0    |                            0 |
| Arunachal Pradesh |   0    | 0.00      |                         0    |   894.24 |      0    | 0.23     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |    8.78 |                       0 |                       0.03 |                            0 |
| Assam             |   0    | 0.00      |                         0    |  1085.33 |      0    | 7.38     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |   21.27 |                   63924 |                       0    |                            0 |
| Bihar             |   0    | 0.00      |                         0    |    14.37 |      0    | 1 .12    |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |    1.97 |                   58580 |                       0    |                          600 |
| Chandigarh        |   0    | 0.00      |                         0    |    53.4  |     10.76 | 0.80     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |   39.1  |                       0 |                      25.41 |                           55 |
| Chhattisgarh      |   0    | 0.00      |                         0    |  6074.98 |      0    | 2.52     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |   12.21 |                       0 |                      74.45 |                         5172 |
| Dadra & Nagar     |   0    | 0,00      |                         0    |    18.66 |      0    | 0.00     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |    0    |                       0 |                       0    |                            0 |
| Goa               |   0.07 | 0.24      |                         0    |   107.12 |    293.79 | 87.00    |       0    | 0.06          |            0    |    0    |                       0 |                       0    |                            0 |
| Gujarat           |   0    | 0.00      |                         0    |  1867.42 |     13.89 | 0.00     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |    2.75 |                      25 |                     322.24 |                        99536 |
| Haryana           |   0    | 0.23      |                         0    |   473.11 |    727.98 | 155.92   |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |  184.85 |                       0 |                   11633.5  |                          437 |
| Himachal Pradesh  |   0    | 0.01      |                         0    |     0.54 |    406.27 | 0.64     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |    4.12 |                    5597 |                    2558.86 |                       324936 |
| Jammu & Kashmir   |   0    | 1.44      |                         0    |   114.03 |    155.45 | 72,07    |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |    2.11 |                   11155 |                    3571.24 |                       189682 |
| Jharkhand         |   0    | 0.00      |                         0    |  1203.53 |      0    | 3.63     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |   46.6  |                       0 |                    1650    |                            0 |
| Karnataka         |   0    | 7.19      |                         0    |  2472.75 |     15.19 | 3.,22    |      24.8  | 0.00          |            0    |    8.55 |                       0 |                       0    |                            0 |
| Kerala            |   0    | 0.01      |                         0    |   810.55 |     96.8  | 3.20     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |    0.01 |                       0 |                       0    |                         1607 |
| Madhya Pradesh    |   0    | 0.00      |                        24.84 |  5373.94 |      5.21 | 8.56     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |   85.65 |                   53734 |                   16501.7  |                         9500 |
| Maharashtra       |   6.31 | 62.01     |                         1.99 |  4147.08 |     31.78 | 235.61   |      43.7  | 142.31        |            2.68 |  271.75 |                     640 |                       0    |                            0 |
| Manipur           |   0.01 | 0.00      |                         0    |  4745.23 |      0    | 4.18     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |   39.1  |                    3020 |                       0    |                        12172 |
| Meghalaya         |   0    | 0.00      |                         0    |     3.2  |      0    | 0.00     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |    0    |                   22514 |                       0    |                            0 |
| Mizoram           |  14.95 | 0.00      |                       266    |   525.42 |      0    | 5.59     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |    0.35 |                      12 |                       0    |                      1476531 |
| Nagaland          |   0    | 0.00      |                         0    |  6957    |      0    | 4.60     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |    9.5  |                     200 |                       0    |                       145096 |
| New Delhi         | 136.82 | 20.87     |                       514    |  5389.87 |    421.48 | 98.47    |     140.84 | 1125.5 7      |           80.51 |   50.21 |                     395 |                     528.1  |                        94618 |
| 0rissa            |   0    | 0.00      |                         0    | 19219.8  |      0    | 0.02     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |    0    |                    3248 |                       0    |                            0 |
| Punjab            |   0    | 0.00      |                         0    |   881.6  |     78.66 | 601.88   |       0    | 0.00          |            4.79 |  420.88 |                   14145 |                   36052.4  |                      2280807 |
| Rajasthan         |   0    | 0.15      |                         0    |  5066.25 |     35.56 | 45.39    |       0    | 0.00          |            0.26 |  409.98 |                      60 |                   51712.5  |                        52903 |
| Tamil Nadu        |   8.13 | 3.70      |                         0    |     0    |      2    | 0.00     |       2.28 | 0.00          |            1.55 |    0    |                       9 |                       0    |                            0 |
| Tripura           |   0    | 0.00      |                         0    |   460.7  |     53    | 0.05     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |    0    |                  132235 |                       0    |                         9320 |
| Uttar Pradesh     |   0    | 1.65      |                         0    | 10516.5  |    899.24 | 20.34    |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |   15.32 |                       0 |                    2756.83 |                        78792 |
| Uttarakhand       |   0    | 0.00      |                         0    |   113.89 |     90.74 | 0.76     |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |   16.9  |                       0 |                    1120.11 |                         5109 |
| West Bengal       |   0    | 14.88     |                         0    | 15785.9  |     12.93 | 50.79    |       0    | 0.00          |            0    |   34.79 |                   20933 |                    5938.85 |                        10000 |
| Total             | 166.29 | 113.15    |                       826.83 | 94403    |   3350.73 | 1416.01  |     211.61 | 1267.94       |           89.78 | 1686.74 |                  390818 |                  134446    |                      5070449 |

*CBCS- Codeine Based Cough Syrups

## State wise quantity of major drugs seized in 2014

## Qty in kgs

|                   |   ATS (in kg) |   COCAINE (in kg) | EPHEDRINE/ PSEUDOEPHEDRINE (in kg)   | GANJA (in kg)   | HASHISH (in kg)   | HEROIN (in kg)   | KETAMINE (in kg)   |   METHAQUALONE (MANDRAX) (in kg) | OPIUM (in kg)   | CBCS (no. of bottles)   | POPPY HUSK & POPPY STRAW (in kg)   | TABLETS Of All type In No.   |
|-------------------|---------------|-------------------|--------------------------------------|-----------------|-------------------|------------------|--------------------|----------------------------------|-----------------|-------------------------|------------------------------------|------------------------------|
| Andaman & Nicobar |          0    |              0    | 0 68.73                              | 0.45            |                   | 0                | 0 0                |                             0    | 140             |                         | 0                                  | 1390                         |
| Andhra Pradesh    |        154.1  |              0    | 69                                   | 7884            | 0                 | 0                | 0.12               |                             0.02 | 0               | 0                       | 0                                  | 0                            |
| Arunachal Pradesh |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 347.28          | 0                 | 1.06             | 0                  |                             0    | 31.27           | 0                       | 0                                  | 5574                         |
| Assam             |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 8613.98         | 0                 | 14.55            | 0                  |                             0    | 9.49            | 109891                  | 0                                  | 1293507                      |
| Bihar             |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 332.98          | 0                 | 0                | 0                  |                             0    | 0               | 0                       | 0                                  |                              |
| Chandigarh        |          0    |              0.05 | 0                                    | 29.17           | 30.92             | 40.6             | 0                  |                             0    | 39.43           | 0                       | 1500.8                             | 84806                        |
| Chhattisgarh      |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 1524.57         | 0                 | 0.89             | 0                  |                             0    | 0.07            | 0                       | 0                                  | 4897                         |
| Dadra & Nagar     |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 0               | 0                 | 0                | 0                  |                             0    | 0               | 0                       | 0                                  | 0                            |
| Goa               |          0.54 |              0.06 | 0                                    | 23.62           | 5.94              | 0.06             | 0                  |                             0.11 | 0.04            | 0                       | 0                                  | 0                            |
| Gujarat           |          0    |              2.28 | 4.68                                 | 453.94          | 89.38             | 2.88             | 0                  |                             0    | 0               | 0                       | 3057.38                            | 0                            |
| Haryana           |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 1032.87         | 87.42             | 4.35             | 0                  |                             0    | 42.54           | 0                       | 14383.34                           | 0                            |
| Himachal Pradesh  |          0    |              0.08 | 0                                    | 0               | 377.37            | 0.79             | 0                  |                             0    | 8.02            | 14295                   | 1119.17                            | 67019                        |
| Jammu & Kashmir   |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 122.86          | 226.66            | 130.73           | 0                  |                             0    | 0               | 7919                    | 10037.98                           | 85091                        |
| Jharkhand         |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 452.71          | 0                 | 0.69             | 0                  |                             0    | 3.52            | 0                       | 845.2                              | 4333                         |
| Karnataka         |          0    |              1.47 | 0                                    | 2120.36         | 2.96              | 3.21             | 0                  |                             0    | 0.93            | 0                       | 0                                  | 0                            |
| Kerala            |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 1027.2          | 9.66              | 7.62             | 0                  |                             0    | 0.04            | 0                       | 0                                  | 1903                         |
| Madhya Pradesh    |          0    |              0    | 88.75                                | 3431.24         | 8.91              | 21.35            | 0                  |                             0    | 506.84          | 0                       | 32411.35                           | 8253                         |
| Maharashtra       |         20.46 |              2.16 | 141.54                               | 5543.15         | 42.24             | 4.8              | 20.25              |                             7.05 | 57.01           | 3200                    | 0                                  | 0                            |
| Manipur           |          0    |              1.55 | 42.62                                | 3033.36         | 0                 | 5.1              | 0                  |                             0    | 72.03           | 2778                    | 0                                  | 625738                       |
| Meghalaya         |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 0               | 0                 | 0.14             | 0                  |                             0    | 0               | 1100                    | 0                                  | 230                          |
| Mizoram           |         15.6  |              0    | 498.68                               | 781.95          | 0                 | 6.24             | 0                  |                             0    | 0.52            | 873                     | 0                                  | 4540261                      |
| Nagaland          |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 3239            | 0                 | 1.7              | 0                  |                             0    | 5               | 215                     | 0                                  | 211723                       |
| New Delhi         |          3.35 |              5.5  | 361.96                               | 12598.47        | 164.18            | 271.53           | 0                  |                            46.8  | 44.52           | 15606                   | 180.07                             | 0                            |
| Orissa            |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 25588.21        | 0                 | 0.16             | 0                  |                             0    | 29.5            | 9297                    | 0                                  | 17508                        |
| Punjab            |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 206.78          | 55.77             | 729.91           | 0                  |                             0    | 392.66          | 12897                   | 76048.33                           | 1970259                      |
| Rajasthan         |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 1564.34         | 53.86             | 33.08            | 0                  |                             0    | 452.04          | 460                     | 58272.56                           | 53580                        |
| Sikkim            |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 0.6             | 0                 | 0                | 0                  |                             0    | 0               | 0                       | 0                                  | 0                            |
| Tamil Nadu        |          1.03 |              0.12 | 122.79                               | 272.43          | 0.98              | 5.13             | 0                  |                             0.01 | 0               | 0                       | 0                                  | 0                            |
| Tripura           |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 2525            | 0                 | 0                | 0                  |                             0    | 0               | 155296                  | 0                                  | 4015                         |
| Uttar Pradesh     |          0    |              1.41 | 0                                    | 8682.82         | 993.81            | 41.3             | 0                  |                             0    | 46.13           | 0                       | 22137.78                           | 136647                       |
| Uttaranchal       |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 32.3            | 116.01            | 2.58             | 0                  |                             0    | 0               | 0                       | 204.71                             | 1060396                      |
| West Bengal       |          0    |              0    | 0                                    | 16765.81        | 13.99             | 40.44            | 0                  |                             0    | 24.78           | 0                       | 1416.2                             | 32625                        |
| Total             |        195.58 |             14.68 | 1,330.02                             | 1,08,299.72     | 2,280.48          | 1,370.87         | 20.37              |                            53.99 | 1,766.37        | 3,33,967                | 2,21,614.87                        | 10209725                     |