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Angels of linking with the drugs business of Bollywood have surfaced in the ongoing high profile investigation following the suspicious death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. Along with CBI, the Narcotics Control Bureau is also investigating in this investigation (NCB Investigation).

After Rhea Chakraborty, many famous celebrities like Deepika Padukone, Sara Ali Khan, Rakul Preet Kaur are being questioned about the use and purchase of drugs. Laws for Drugs If someone is found guilty of using or possessing drugs, what punishment can one get? Know what are the provisions of law.

What and how is the anti-drugs law? 

The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act i.e. NDPS Act 1985 and NDPS Act 1988 are the two main laws that are applicable in Drug-related matters in India. According to this law, production, possession, sale, purchase, trade, import-export, and use of narcotic drugs or any controlled chemical or psychotropic substance is prohibited. This may be possible only after special approval for medical or scientific reasons 

NDPS Act also gives the right to search, attachment and arrest against the person who breaks the ban. The investigating agency can take action in such cases in private or public places. 

What is the policy on drugs in India? 

Under Article 47 of the Constitution of India, the state has got the power to control, control drugs. Drug control is discussed in the current law in three categories. One is a category of psychotropic substances like LSD, meth, the other is narcotic drugs like hashish, cannabis, opium, and the third category is a mixture of chemical substances called controlled substances. 

From cocaine to cannabis there is a list of more than 125 hundred such psychotropics and drugs, which are banned under the NDPS Act. If you keep any kind of mixture with them, use it or trade it in any way, then you break the law. And you may be punished for breaking this law. Punishment will decide on how and how much you have broken the law. 

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