As many as 917 people were arrested and 897 seizures of narcotics were made in Chandigarh in the last five years. A scrutiny revealed that the seizure of narcotics substances, especially heroin, charas and capsules, which cannot be sold without a valid prescription, has witnessed a rise in the five years, between January 1, 2016 and September 20, 2020. All the recorded seizures were made in Chandigarh, while the drug peddlers were arrested by the Chandigarh police independently. Most of the suspects are local residents. The seized narcotics include heroin, smack, charas, ganja, hash, weed, opium, tablets and capsules along with injections of bupernorphine and pheniramine meleate, which...
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