To curb drug smuggling Maha govt will bring amendment to MCOCA: CM Fadnavis
Mumbai, July 2 (UNI) Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today announced that his government will bring in an amendment to the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) during the ongoing monsoon session of the assembly to curb drug smuggling.
While replying to a question in the House, the chief minister said in the existing law Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985 which deals with drug peddlers, the accused persons get bail in most of the cases and resume their criminal acts.
So a strict law is required to curb such activities .
The Chief Minister also said that a separate NDPS unit has been set up in every police station in the state and officers and other personnel have been appointed in it.
Coordination committees have also been set up at the district level.
He added that the police have taken action in a large number of cases over the last two and a half years. UNI AAA SSP
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