CBN Destroys Over 10.84 Tonnes of Seized Drugs in MP

The correct answer is the NDPS Act, 1985, that is, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. The destruction of the seized stock followed the procedure laid down in that law, and the authorised disposal was carried out under the watch of the Drug Disposal Committee with a representative of the state pollution control board present, so that the material was incinerated safely and could not slip back into the illicit trade. Option A is wrong because the customs law deals with import and export duties and smuggling of goods generally, not with the disposal of narcotic substances. Option C is wrong because the money laundering law deals with the proceeds of crime rather than the contraband itself. Option D is wrong because the older opium law has been replaced by the present statute for these purposes. The same law was cited for both the fresh seizures reported by the bureau.

The correct answer is Neemuch. Along with the destruction of the bulk of the seized contraband, the bureau deposited 154.375 kg of seized opium at the Government Opium and Alkaloid Works at Neemuch in Madhya Pradesh as part of the prescribed disposal process. Option A is wrong because Mandsaur is the station of the preventive and intelligence cell whose officers made the separate opium seizure on the road towards Manasa. Option B is wrong because Khor is the place where the cement plant stands at which the destruction was carried out, which is a different step in the same process. Option D is wrong because Jaipur is where the parcel from abroad was examined at the Foreign Post Office. Candidates should remember Neemuch as the centre linked with the lawful handling and processing of opium.

The correct answer is Thailand. Acting on specific intelligence about a suspect consignment, officers of the bureau at Jaipur examined an international parcel received from that country at the Foreign Post Office and found hydroponic weed weighing 1.080 kg concealed inside 29 pouches of cake, which had been mixed with other cake packets and articles so that the contraband would escape attention. Options A, C and D name other countries often discussed in connection with narcotics routes into the region, but the parcel in this case came from Thailand. The case is a reminder that postal and courier consignments are a channel that enforcement agencies watch closely, and that the bureau says it keeps international consignments under watch on the basis of specific intelligence inputs.

The correct answer is poppy straw. Of the total stock destroyed in the disposal operation, poppy straw accounted for 10,823.990 kg, which is almost the whole of the consignment. The remaining items were far smaller in quantity: heroin at 7.535 kg, charas at 7.400 kg, mephedrone at 3.175 kg and brown sugar at 0.050 kg, adding up with the poppy straw to the overall figure for the operation. Options A, B and C therefore name drugs that were indeed part of the destroyed stock but in very small amounts compared with poppy straw. The distinction matters because poppy straw is bulky plant material, while heroin, charas and mephedrone are concentrated substances that are trafficked in much smaller weights, and examination questions often test this sense of proportion.