Ls Approves Ndps Amendment Bill (amendment). This Bill Is Intended To Rectify A Drafting Error.

LS approves NDPS Amendment Bill (Amendment). This bill is intended to rectify a drafting error.

New Delhi, December 13, 2013 : .Monday’s Lok Sabha vote passed the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Amendment Bill (2021) with voice vote.
On December 6, 2021, the Lok Sabha introduced the NDPS Amendment Bill 2021.This bill seeks to repeal the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Ordinance (Amendment), 2021.

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Nirmala Sitharaman, the Finance Minister, moved the Bill to be discussed.She stated that the Bill would amend the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985 in order to fix a drafting mistake.

This Act governs some acts, such as the manufacture, transportation, and consumption of narcotic and psychotropic drugs.

Sitharaman responded to the debate by stating that the retrospective part of the amendment did not have substantive effect to amend criminal laws.

Further, she stated that the Bill was intended to rectify an error in the previous amendment.After the High Court made observations, it was decided that the government would bring the Ordinance through as the Parliament was not currently in session.

In 2014 and 2017, the other High Courts requested corrections, while 2017 was the most recent.The Tripura High Court filed a June 2021 motion asking for the government’s corrective action.

Also, she said some members of opposition raised the drug seizure at Mundra Port.The Narcotics Control Bureau was looking into the matter and arresteds were made.

However, after an order from the Union Home Ministry the investigation was transferred to the Investigation Agency.

Earlier in the debate on the Bill the NCP MP Supriya Sule urged government to not act upon the whims of one officer but to bring forward a comprehensive and concrete NDPS law if the government is serious about fighting this menace.

She noted that drug abuse is a serious condition and that people who consume drugs are often arrested.Those who sell the substances will be released from the control of law enforcement agencies.

Manish Tewari, Congress MP, stated that “if the bill is approved in the format in which it was proposed by the government, Article 20 will be nullified.”

Also, he said that nobody will be safe if the bill was passed.Tewari supported the NDPS Act’s idea, but expressed reservations about the Bill’s “content”.

The Congress MP noted that the Bill would not be subject to judicial scrutiny and asked for further amendments from the government.

“We will support a comprehensive Bill that helps eradicate drug menace, but an addict needs to go to rehab and not jail,” the NCP MP commented.

Shiv Sena lawmaker Arvind Sawant, while highlighting the ‘attack on the film makers’ in this regard, said that when Sushant Singh Rajput lost his life, BJP put up his posters in poll-bound Bihar to gain political benefit.

He also said that instead of remedial action, they went after the Maharashtra government and that entire Bollywood was given a bad name, Sawant said, adding that there should not be politics on drugs.

Referring to the arrest of the son of a Bollywood actor, the Shiv Sena MP said that in the recent recovery of drugs at the Mundra Port in Gujarat which is being run by Adani Ports, nobody spoke about it and the small amount of drugs recovered from a Cruise was widely publicized by the media.

DMK MP V.Kalanidhi while debating on the Bill said that actions have not been taken against people who sell or peddle drugs, but is rather taken against those who are found to be possessing small quantities.

BSP MP Danish Ali said that the proposed Bill has a provision of retrospective effect that will have a dangerous impact in the country.”We need to catch the root cause of the disease.”

Referring to the recent seizure of over 3000 kg of drugs at Mundra port, he further said that in most of the cases, actions are taken against the persons found with the possession of the drugs, but not against the drug lords and peddlers.

SP Member H.K.Hassan said that the liquor should also be brought under NDPS Act.He said that most of the time this Act is found to be used to threaten ordinary citizens.There should be strong provisions under this Act so that strict action can be taken against druglords and peddlers.

Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said there are various issues regarding the NDPS (Amendment) Bill and asked if the government is going to decriminalise consumption in the future?

“India has been constantly witnessing illegal drug trafficking of thousands of crores of rupees,” he further said and asked how will that problem be solved? He claimed there are wrongful cases filed in the name of drug trafficking and asked the government to clarify what is the difference between consumption and trafficking?


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