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25% Decline in Arrests Over Drug Smuggling, Says MHA
The New Indian Express Thrissur
|March 31, 2025
Amid the government's 'zero tolerance' policy against narcotics, the official data released by the Ministry of Home Affairs has revealed there has been a 25 percent decline in drug smuggling-related arrests between 2022 and 2024, but the number of convictions have gone up.
As per the data, the overall arrests made in 2022 were 768, but the trend in the successive years showed a decline of 25.2 percent. In 2023, the number of arrests was 574 and in 2024 it was 588. In the current year, till January, 43 arrests have been made so far, it said.
This story is from the March 31, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Thrissur.
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