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Haryana Tightens Anti-Drug Drive With Tech Mandates as 2025 Arrests Rise

District roadmaps are due March 31, with leaders weighing a Panchkula shift for the narcotics bureau plus a new task force station.

Overview

  • Haryana’s state NCORD, which met Wednesday in Chandigarh, set a technology-led plan with district submissions due by March 31 and floated moving the HSNCB headquarters to Panchkula with a dedicated Anti-Narcotics Task Force police station.
  • Drug enforcement intensified in 2025 as FIRs rose 12.25% to 3,738 and arrests increased 15.72% to 7,053 compared to 2024.
  • Supply-chain focus widened, with intermediate-quantity cases up 31.49% to 2,610 and inter-state commercial-quantity arrests up 37.39% to 610.
  • Preventive pressure increased as detentions jumped from 12 to 76 and authorities attached properties of 144 accused worth ₹13.59 crore.
  • Regulators tightened controls on high-misuse medicines by requiring CCTV at chemist shops, flagging in Sirsa faulty cameras and missing pharmacists during 1,737 checks, and tasking the Food and Drug Administration to build software to track pill diversion.