Telangana: War on drugs undermined by low conviction rate
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Telangana: War on drugs undermined by low conviction rate

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: Despite strong rhetoric from governments about combating the drug menace, the actions on the ground appear insufficient to match the promises. Data from the Excise department reveals a dismal conviction rate in drug-related cases. Data indicates that 2,443 police personnel were trained with the TGANB, 60 with the Telangana State Police Academy, and 20 with the National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics. High Court advocate Gopala Krishna Gokhale said that police often fail to adhere to mandatory provisions under the NDPS Act. Yet, in some cases, officers collect samples without court authorisation, violating legal protocols.

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Share drug suppliers information to initiate stern action: TGANB
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Share drug suppliers information to initiate stern action: TGANB

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Telangana Anti-Narcotics Bureau on Wednesday requested the people in the State to share information related to drug manufactures’, suppliers, transporters, receivers, peddlers and consumers to its toll-free number 1908 to initiate stern action against them. To deal with drug menace comprehensively, the efforts of police and other law enforcing agencies were alone not sufficient but the support of other …

17 persons get 20 years jail term in NDPS Act in 2024: Telangana police
4 weeks, 1 day ago

17 persons get 20 years jail term in NDPS Act in 2024: Telangana police

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Seventeen persons got 20 years jail term in four cases related to NDPS Act in 2024 in the State while two persons received 12 years imprisonment in one case and 19 persons got 10 years jail term in 11 cases, according to police. During the reward program organised by Telangana Anti-Narcotics Bureau at the police headquarters here, Director-General of …

Drug Abuse in Prisons a Major Headache: TGNAB
3 months, 1 week ago

Drug Abuse in Prisons a Major Headache: TGNAB

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad:Drug abuse in prisons poses significant challenges and there was an urgent need for a multifaceted approach to tackle the issue, said Sandeep Shandilya, director of Telangana Narcotics Bureau, speaking at a sensitisation program on drug abuse in prisons at the State Institute of Correctional Administration at Chanchalguda in Hyderabad on Tuesday. The issue of drugs and substance abuse by …

Telangana Drugs Control Administration makes 277 seizures since January
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Telangana Drugs Control Administration makes 277 seizures since January

The Hindu  

Telangana accounts for over 35% of India’s pharmaceutical production, with Hyderabad earning the moniker ‘Bulk Drug Capital of India’. Between January and July 2024, the Telangana Drugs Control Administration conducted 12,575 inspections; this led to 277 seizures for various violations, 1,963 instances of departmental action, and 51 convictions. The seizures, included six cases of spurious drugs; 61 cases of overpricing; …

Target drug producers, not users
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Target drug producers, not users

The Hindu  

Telangana is battling a drug problem. Calling it the ‘White Challenge’, he suggested that politicians and celebrities in the State undergo drug analysis tests to create awareness among the youth. The drug problem is complicated in Hyderabad as there is a large influx of people into the city in search of jobs and education; in this stream of humanity, the …

TGANB Intensify Drug Menace in Educational Institutions
5 months ago

TGANB Intensify Drug Menace in Educational Institutions

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: In an effort to curb drugs and psychedelics from schools and educational institutions, the Telangana Police along with Telangana Anti-Narcotics Bureau has increased its pace and has implemented new approaches. Officials said they arrested three drug abusers recently at Artistry Pub and Novotel HICC, and raided a psychedelic party at Cave Pub, where 33 out of the 52 attendees …

TGANB Revamps Strategy to Combat Drug Menace in Telangana
5 months, 2 weeks ago

TGANB Revamps Strategy to Combat Drug Menace in Telangana

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: In a bid to ensure that the younger generations do not become addicts and destroy their lives, the Telangana Anti-Narcotics Bureau has changed its investigation strategy completely as an effective measure to eradicate the NDPS drug menace from the state. Rather than go about its usual practice of targeting peddlers and suppliers and seizing banned substances from their possession, …

Telangana to decentralise its fight against drugs
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Telangana to decentralise its fight against drugs

The Hindu  

Telangana is set to decentralise its fight against drugs by establishing seven Regional Narcotics Control Cells and four Narcotic Police Stations. In the first half of the year, the State has registered a total of 1,892 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances cases in which 3,792 arrests and seizures worth ₹179.3 crore were reported. Amid the growing drug menace in the …

Anti-drug committees to be set up in all Telangana villages with help of women SHGs
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Anti-drug committees to be set up in all Telangana villages with help of women SHGs

The Hindu  

Anti-drug committees will be set up in all villages of Telangana by taking the help of women self-help groups, Telangana Anti-Narcotics Bureau Director Sandeep Shandilya said during the State-wide celebration of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking here on Wednesday. The event at Shilpakala Vedika saw the presence of at least 2,000 students from various schools and …

Deal with the drug peddlers with an iron hand: Revanth tells officials
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Deal with the drug peddlers with an iron hand: Revanth tells officials

The Hindu  

Stating that Telangana should be made a drug-free State, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy asked the officials not to spare even the celebrities or the influential to send a strong message to society. The Chief Minister, who reviewed the drug menace issue with senior officials at the Police Command Control Centre and the Telangana Anti Narcotics Bureau, said that severe …

Learn from NCB about probing drug cases: Madras HC to narcotics intelligence
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Learn from NCB about probing drug cases: Madras HC to narcotics intelligence

New Indian Express  

MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court recently directed the NIB-CID to take note of how the Narcotics Control Bureau conducted investigation into cases filed under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, and asked it to follow suit. The court’s observation came when Justice B Pugalendhi was hearing a bail plea of Parimala Doss, an accused in …

Spotlight | Telangana’s pill predicament
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Spotlight | Telangana’s pill predicament

The Hindu  

The mehendi was too dark to be real. However, even after Telangana DCA seized medicines manufactured by Lifecare Ayurvedic in Rajasthan, these falsified drugs continue to be sold across multiple online platforms. Despite drug regulation falling under the jurisdiction of the Central government, ‘public health’ is constitutionally a State subject in India, granting State governments significant control over drug regulation. …

Telangana fighting surge in spurious drug trade; doctors sound alarm
11 months, 1 week ago

Telangana fighting surge in spurious drug trade; doctors sound alarm

The Hindu  

Enforcement agencies across Telangana have uncovered the business of spurious drugs, in recent raids conducted by the Drugs Control Administration. Spurious drugs, also known as counterfeit drugs, are deceitfully manufactured medicines designed to mimic reputable products, often from well-known brands, with the intention of misleading the public and capitalising on the popularity of authentic items. Expanding market Kiran Madala, Scientific …

Cops Checking Role of International Cartels in Opium Supply
1 year ago

Cops Checking Role of International Cartels in Opium Supply

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: In their intensified push to curb the illegal drug menace in the city, the police are currently probing drug supply routes and checking the involvement of the international drug mafia in supplying highly addictive opium and similar substances. Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, Rachakonda police commissioner G. Sudheer Babu said: “We are not sure, but are not ruling out the …

Action plan drawn up to combat drug menace in Telangana: Shandilya
1 year ago

Action plan drawn up to combat drug menace in Telangana: Shandilya

The Hindu  

December 17, 2023 10:20 pm | Updated December 18, 2023 10:43 am IST - HYDERABAD Newly appointed Director of Telangana State Anti-Narcotics Bureau Sandeep Shandilya on Sunday notified a slew of measures, focus areas and the action plan, for the fight against drug menace in the State. From Anti-Drug Committees in educational institutions, procuring portable drug detection kits like alcohol …

New city top cop promises a drug-free Hyderabad
1 year ago

New city top cop promises a drug-free Hyderabad

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The new Hyderabad police commissioner Kothakota Sreenivasa Reddy on Wednesday vowed to free the city of drug menace and warned establishments like bars and pubs against being involved in illegal business. Taking charge of the Hyderabad Police after Sandeep Shandilya was relieved, at the Integrated Command Control Centre, Sreenivasa Reddy said that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy was keen …

Congress protests, demands end to drug abuse in TS
1 year, 9 months ago

Congress protests, demands end to drug abuse in TS

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Blaming the state government for failing to control drug abuse and alcohol consumption, Congress leaders held a demonstration in front of the excise and prohibition office at Abkari Bhavan in Nampally here on Monday. Holding placards and shouting slogans, the protestors said, “unless the menace is checked on priority, we would be seeing ‘Udta Telangana’ in the not too …

Cops empowered to fight drugs, narcotics
2 years ago

Cops empowered to fight drugs, narcotics

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana police will be further strengthened to tackle increasing drugs and narcotics related crimes in the state with a two-pronged strategy — one making the force even more technologically capable, and two, by filling up 3,966 vacancies in the Hyderabad, Cyberabad, and Rachakonda police commissionerates. These were among the decisions taken by the state Cabinet meet that was …

S.18 Drugs & Cosmetics Act | Jurisdiction To Try Offence Of Manufacturing Sub-Standard Drug Lies Where Sale Is Completed: Telangana High Court
2 years, 4 months ago

S.18 Drugs & Cosmetics Act | Jurisdiction To Try Offence Of Manufacturing Sub-Standard Drug Lies Where Sale Is Completed: Telangana High Court

Live Law  

The Telangana High Court has held that an offence of manufacture of substandard quality of drug can only be tried by the Court in whose jurisdiction the sale has taken place. Brief Facts of the case The State filed an appeal aggrieved by the acquittal of the respondents for the offence of manufacture for sale of drug of substandard quality …

NDPS Act | Violation Of Standing Orders During Contraband Sampling Leads To Adverse Inference Against Prosecution: Telangana High Court
2 years, 5 months ago

NDPS Act | Violation Of Standing Orders During Contraband Sampling Leads To Adverse Inference Against Prosecution: Telangana High Court

Live Law  

The Telangana High Court recently observed that Standing Orders with respect to sampling and seizure under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 cannot be flouted and in the absence of substantial compliance of the Standing Orders, adverse inference has to be drawn against the prosecution. Justice K. Surender noted that while drawing samples from the seized contraband, the …

Hyderabad’s drug trafficking problem
2 years, 6 months ago

Hyderabad’s drug trafficking problem

The Hindu  

For elite pub hoppers in Hyderabad, a star hotel at Banjara Hills Road No 3 used to be a favourite haunt. However, many senior officials, including of the Telangana police, feel that this is the right time to curb the drug abuse, which could become a menace in the future if not controlled now. After the arrest of over half-a-dozen …

Congress seeks SIT probe into drug case
2 years, 8 months ago

Congress seeks SIT probe into drug case

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Demanding to form a special investigation team comprising Narcotic Control Bureau officials to investigate into drug peddling in the state, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee working president B. Mahesh Kumar Goud alleged that a number of pubs were being run with direction of IT minister K. T. Rama Rao. Following the police raids on Pudding and Mink Pub at Radisson …

Telangana: Cops, excise officials to zero in on drug smugglers
3 years, 2 months ago

Telangana: Cops, excise officials to zero in on drug smugglers

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: A joint crackdown on drug trade and sale in the city, launched by west zone police and the excise department, has led to detaining of around 100 persons from Dhoolpet in Mangalhat. “About 100 individuals, mostly students and youngsters, were caught during our raid last night,” said DCP of West Zone, AR Srinivas, adding that they will be counselled …

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