Last updated: 28 April 2025
Rehabilitation over Criminal prosecution to bring small time criminals or drugs consumers into main stream again
1 March - 28 April 2025[1]: 689 persons caught with small quantity of drugs have been sent to de-addiction centres for treatment instead of jail
1 Jan - 20 Jan 2025: 295 drug consumers in 245 cases pledged to undergo the rehabilitation treatment in Courts[2]
Promoting Section 64A of the NDPS act
-- Provides opportunity to a drug consumer for rehabilitation
-- Those caught with little quantity of drugs for self consumption
For the First time, drug consumers caught with little quantity of drugs, are availing section 64-A of the NDPS by pledging to undergo the rehabilitation treatment[4]
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