India, June 19 -- NEW DELHI

The Delhi Police has registered 1,096 cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and arrested 1,353 persons until May, according to data accessed by HT, with enforcement well on its course to ensure record seizures by the year-end.

According to the data, in theentirety of 2024, 1,789 cases were registered and 2,290 persons were arrested, while the respective numbers were 1,325 and 1,736 for 2023, 1,179 and 1,499 for 2022, and 566 and 857 for 2021.

Officers said that while the 2024 numbers were a record, enforcement action has been more stringent this year, given the growing drug smuggling networks. "With synthetic and prescription drugs being increasingly used, enforcement agencies...