Chandigarh, March 13 -- The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Punjab government has decided to de-addict and rehabilitate those caught with non-commercial quantity of drugs by providing them immunity under Section 64 (a) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

In the past 12 days of the Punjab government's war against drugs campaign, more than 1,600 drug smugglers and peddlers have been arrested.

Under its new strategy already announced by chief minister Bhagwant Mann at a meeting in which a detailed roadmap to curb drug menace within three months was finalised, officials dealing with de-addiction revealed that it has been decided to help de-addict and rehabilitate those caught with non-commercial quantity i.e. less than 2...