The Delhi Police have arrested around 844 people and recovered more than 5,000 kilogram (kg) of narcotics substance up to November 2020.
Delhi Police Commissioner, SN Shrivastava on Saturday gave a message for youth and said that make health your “new high” in life, not drugs, “Say No to Drugs” and Delhi Police is strict against drugs.
“The Delhi Police is taking many steps. We need to spread awareness so that no one would get in this. The person who is taking drugs should get himself treated. The source of supply also should be destroyed,” he said.
The data shared by the Delhi Police was recorded from January 1, 2020 till November 31, 2020. Police have registered 695 cases and recovered 17,771.548 kg drugs.
According to the data, police have recovered 23.904 kg charas, 29.184 kg opium, 4205.939 kg ganja, 84.932 kg heroin, 699.538 kg poppy head and 1.035 kg cocaine.
“The other drugs — 219.743 kg Tremadol, 12,500 tablets Alprazolam, 0.325 kg Methaqualone, 500 tablets bupromorphine, 7.495 kg Amphetamine — have also been recovered during 2020,” as per police data.
In 2019, police recovered 47.461 kg charas, 2.010 kg opium, 5,055.532 kg ganja, 631.035 kg heroin, 1696.035 kg poppy head and 1.106 kg cocaine.
Twenty tablets morphine, 10.513 kg methaqualone, 1.480 ketamine, 100 injection ketajet etc were also recovered in 2019, police said.