KOLKATA: “Commercial quantity” is defined as anything of or above 100 grams of cocaine, 250 grams of heroin, 20kg ganja and 50kg of poppy straw. The power of courts to grant bail to an accused dealing in commercial quantities of narcotics is largely curtailed,” the HC said.
“While a strict law is necessary to control organized crime like drug trafficking and protect the youth from the menace of drug abuse, its draconian provisions are sometimes misused by investigating agencies, leading to false implication and prolonged unjustified detention of individuals,” the division bench of justices Joymalya Bagchi and Ananya Bandyopadhyay remarked.
