India, Dec. 29 -- Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said those who traffic narcotics, organise supply chain and profit from human vulnerability are perpetrators of serious harm. In his address on Friday at the Goa Bench of Bombay High Court building during the 30-day-long campaign on drug abuse, the CJI said the law must speak firmly, decisively and without hesitation against drug traffickers.

"Our legal framework draws a very clear and deliberate distinction. Those who traffic narcotics, organise supply chains, who profit from human vulnerability are not victims of circumstances. They are perpetrators of serious harm. For those actors, the law must speak firmly, decisively and without hesitation." Substance abuse cannot be addressed thr...