While militancy made headlines, drug addiction quietly spiked in Kashmir

Over the last "five to six years", 96.8 tonnes, equivalent to 12 truckloads of narcotic drugs have been seized: State's home department

Drug addiction is a bigger challenge than militancy in Jammu & Kashmir today, the state’s director general of police, Shesh Paul Vaid, told a news agency on November 16, 2017.

Drug seizures have increased and the number of cases being registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, for peddling and smuggling of banned substances are rising, said Vaid.

 

 

Source: Data collected from Jammu & Kashmir police
Note: Data refer to cases registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS)