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The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has pulled up the Excise section for not carrying retired elaborate probe successful cases nether the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act involving ‘small quantity’ narcotic cause seizures.
These practices effect successful a emergence successful specified cases “while the suppliers up successful the concatenation evade punishment,” the ‘Combined Report of the CAG for the play ended March 2023’ tabled successful the Assembly connected Tuesday said.
In 1,596 transgression cases involving ‘small quantity’ contrabands, nary of the penal provisions stipulated nether Sections 27 to 31 of the NDPS Act were invoked, the CAG noted. The lone sections invoked were for possession of intoxicants (Section 20, 21 and 22 of NDPS Act).
In the contiguous context, ‘small quantity’ refers to quantities beneath those specified by the Centre with respect to 239 narcotic drugs.
“Due to the nonaccomplishment successful conducting elaborate investigations, lone the accused successful ‘small quantity’ contrabands were penalised. Department chose to not analyse the substance further, thereby missing retired an accidental to apprehend the perpetrators progressive successful abetment, conspiracy, mentation and organisation of drugs,” the audit study noted.
The CAG did not judge the government’s statement that “unnecessary” invocation of Sections of NDPS Act, beyond the facts and evidence, volition beryllium a wrongful enactment which tin invitation strictures from the courts.
According to the audit report, elaborate investigations successful ‘small quantity’ cases, “whose numbers are significant, person not been carried retired owing to non-invocation of penal provisions of the NDPS Act. Consequently, specified cases proceed to emergence portion the suppliers up successful the concatenation evade punishment.”
