After Aryan Khan Fiasco, Senior Anti-Drugs Officer Talks Course Correction
NDTV
Disclosures from an internal report of the NCB has faulted its handling of the Aryan Khan case.
Singed twice over by its disastrous handling of the drugs-on-cruise case involving Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) is doubling down on a course correction, busting major drug syndicates rather than chasing consumers, a senior officer told NDTV on Tuesday.
"The NCB is a niche organisation. It is a specialised agency. It has limited resources and manpower. So, it is very important to have clarity on our mandate. Our focus is on end-to-end network busting, the mafia involved in interstate and international drug trafficking," Deputy Director General of the agency's Southwest division, Gyaneshwar Singh, said.
"We don't have resources to go after street-level enforcement or consumers. There are other agencies and police to do that. The NCB is working on many other aspects like international coordination, inter-agency coordination within India, capacity building," he said.
The statement comes on a day when the NCB announced the seizure of cocaine worth Rs 50 crore with the bust of an international drug network and disclosures from a damning report that faulted its handling of the Aryan Khan case.
