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Tightening 🇮🇳 India

India's Supreme Court counts the whole mixture when weighing drugs

A three-judge bench ruled in Hira Singh v. Union of India that where a drug is mixed with neutral substances, their weight is included in deciding whether the quantity is small or commercial. It overruled an earlier decision that had counted only the actual drug content, so more seizures now reach the bands with the heaviest sentences.[1]

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for India here.

References

  1. Bhatt & Joshi Associates — Small vs Commercial Quantity under the NDPS Act (8 September 2026)archived

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