File picture of NCB chief Rakesh Asthana
NEW DELHI: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) may be criticised for apprehending people possessing small amount of cannabis but it cannot allow free run to drug lords and peddlers in selling narcotics and ruining lives, the agency s chief Rakesh Asthana has said.
The drugs abuse scenario in the country was quite grim , he said on Tuesday at an online conference on anti-money laundering and combating financing of terrorism that was organised by the Global Counter Terrorism Council. In the context of drug trafficking, India is located between the golden crescent , Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, and the golden triangle , Myanmar, Laos and Thailand. Infact, it can be called (sandwiched between) death crescent and death triangle.