It’s a horrible life. Every drug user is eager to quit, but it’s difficult to quit. Once I attended a very rare training, conducted by the National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (NACIN) Mumbai. All trainees were expecting that senior IPS or IRS or Customs officers will train/lecture us. Instead, we were trained/lectured by psychiatrists, doctors, specialists, experts, and scientists. Here we learned that any person who consumed 100 per cent purity of heroin, more than three times, is an addict and very difficult to quit without proper medical treatment.
Heroin in the market is not always pure when tested. To boost profit, dealers or smugglers usually mix it with other substances like soda, glucose, Paracetamol, caffeine, rat poison or any white powder which is more dangerous than Heroin itself. Heroin consumers usually spend approximately between Rs. 500-1000-2000 a day, depending upon the number of months and years they have consumed. But it will not cause that much to the de-addicted per day. I believe that no parents can afford to give their children this amount of money every day. This made a drug user become a drug smuggler.
Dear parents, here we learned how to observe whether our children are drug users or not, where I would like to share with you. When you notice that items are missing, do not search but observe your children because without drugs, one will sweat or chill, have diarrhea, stomach cramps and muscle aches and watch their strange/unusual behaviours.
When medicines are missing, there is a possibility that our children are into drugs. Throw away expired or unused medicines. Those who are eager to quit should come forward. Nobody will look down on you. Do not wait till you are arrested and stay in jail for many years or spend lakhs of rupees to defend yourself. Do not be afraid. Under section 64A of the NDPS Act 1985, drug addicts, involving small quantities of narcotic drugs, can volunteer for treatment. Please take this golden opportunity. Watch Potter Net TV where you will see how addicts like you can change their life.
It is not easy for any court of law to sentence or convict any accused person, and not easy for any investigating agency to blindly arrest anyone. For many reasons, an accused person got bail and got away. Few lapses must be corrected. The first page in a case file is always the Panchnama where a Special NDPS Judge will go through. Therefore, it must be perfectly drawn on the spot. A slight mistake on the date, time, place etc will be noticed. It must be understood that a voluntary statement is more powerful than a questioner’s statement in any court of law.
When an accused is produced, the court will send to 14 days of judicial custody. In many cases it has been noticed that judges must wait for an IO or lawyer to come after 14 days of judicial custody or they never attend the court at all. Again and again an accused is being sent to custody. Besides, there is late receipt of the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report.
One public witness said something, the other said another thing, frequently seeking more time to file a charge-sheet, date and time of arrest warrant (not possible to arrest 2,3,4 ….at the same time, the time mentioned in arrest warrant cannot be the same). Few important sections were not properly followed like Section 100 CrPC1973, Section 67 of NDPS Act 1985, and Section 25 of the Indian Evidence Act 1872. The team of officers conducting the search did not offer themselves for their personal search to a person in-charge of the premises being searched. These lapses will create doubt/confusion in a courtroom.
As per Section 42 of the NDPS Act, 1985, only few authorised officers (not all) with specific rank are empowered to search or arrest. Yes, we all wanted to combat drugs and crimes, but there is a limit to doing something good in a society. One day, the NGOs may get information that a drug smuggler has 10 to 1000 grams of heroin in his person, or premises or vehicle. Please inform the authorised investigating agencies. Never go alone.
Or if a smuggler is intercepted, the best you can do is to detain a person on camera and inform the authorised agencies and you will be rewarded handsomely at Rs. 60,000 and Rs. 300 per kilo for Heroin and Ganja respectively depending on the purity of the drugs. Of course, you will be rewarded for other narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances also and the identity of the informer is kept secret. Therefore, please do not search him/her or any home or any vehicle. The moment you search and recover the narcotic drugs it will be a different story in any court of law, because the drugs were not lawfully recovered from his person, premises, or vehicle. Nobody is perfect, somehow our small mistakes were detected by top and expert defense lawyers. I wish the police, investigation agencies and NGOs all the best.
