THE PREVENTION OF ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES ACT, 1988
An Act to provide for detention in certain cases for the purpose of preventing illicit traffic in
narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances and for matters connected therewith.
WHEREAS illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances poses a serious threat to the
health and welfare of the people and the activities of persons engaged in such illicit traffic have a
deleterious effect on the national economy;
ANDWHEREAS having regard to the persons by whom and the manner in which such activities are
organised and carried on, and having regard to the fact that in certain areas which are highly vulnerable to
the illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, such activities of a considerable
magnitude are clandestinely organised and carried on, it is necessary for the effective prevention of such
activities to provide for detention of persons concerned in any manner therewith.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
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