The Union home ministry and central anti-narcotics agencies are working on a three-year action plan targeting domestic drug cartels, overseas fugitives, and setting up new verticals in federal agencies.
As part of the Centre’s push to make India drug-free by 2047, officials familiar with the matter said separate dossiers on top 15 drug lords in each state will be created along with the formation of separate wings under state intelligence bureaus to track drug mafia by the end of the year.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has identified nearly 150 key players who are pumping narcotics into India from abroad, and detailed dossiers have been prepared on these 150 people, based on which agencies have been told to work for deportation instead of pursuing lengthier extradition.
Key proposals in the plan include setting up nearly 300 special NDPS courts, with locations identified based on the workload trend of drug cases, and every state intelligence bureau (SIB) will have a separate vertical just to track drug mafia by December 2026.
