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India's war on drugs: Rs 25,000 crore worth of narcotics seized in 2024
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|New Delhi 11February2025
India's law enforcement agencies have, in a first-of-its-kind crackdown on drug trafficking, seized narcotics worth approximately Rs 25,330 crore in 2024, an increase of 55 per cent from the Rs 16,100 crore seized in 2023.
NEW DELHI:
It is the first year 2024 has recorded alarming seizures of high-value narcotics, including synthetic drugs, cocaine, and pharmaceutical substances used as psychotropic drugs. Amphetamine-Type Stimulants (ATS), such as methamphetamine, witnessed an increase more than double that of the year 2023, reaching 80 quintals against 34 quintals.
The amount of cocaine seizures rose to 1,426 kg against 292 kg, while that of mephedrone rose to 3,391 kg against 688 kg.
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