The consumption rate of various narcotics substances in the country has seen a 70% increase in the past eight years and the number continues to rise, Hyderabad Commissioner of Police C.V. Anand said on Friday.
“The number of people getting addicted to drugs has increased drastically. Currently, there are around 10 crore people in the country who are addicted to various narcotics substances,” he said, citing data of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).
Mr Anand said that in the last couple of days itself, officials of Customs and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) have seized heroin worth ₹125 crore at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad. “See how much quantity of drugs is being seized at Hyderabad airport itself. It’s high time for all the stakeholders concerned to come forward, on a single platform, to control drug rackets in the country,” he added.
