Call it an exponential rise in drug-trafficking or effective law enforcement, narcotic cases, especially those involving synthetic drugs, are on the rise in Alappuzha.
Cases registered by the police and the excise under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in the first five months of this year have almost reached the number registered in the whole of 2021. The police and the excise registered as many as 617 NDPS cases and arrested 682 people between January and May this year as against 711 cases in the entire 2021.
This year, the police alone registered 478 NDPS cases, while the number of cases taken by the excise stands at 139. During the five-month period, they separately seized 181 kg of ganja, 397.3 g of MDMA, 167 g of hashish oil, 11 LSD stamps, 20 nitrazepam tablets, 3 g of heroin, 8.31 g of charas and so on.
