The Narcotics Control
Bureau (NCB), established in 1986 is an Indian federal law enforcement and
intelligence agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. It
is responsible to control the drug trafficking cases, and assisting
international and foreign drug law enforcement agencies.
The
NCB was established to fulfill India's treaty obligations under the Single
Convention on Narcotic Drugs, Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and United
Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances. Officers in this organization are drawn from Indian Revenue
Service, Indian Police Service and Paramilitary forces in addition to directly
recruited members.
The
chief purpose of the NCB is to fight drug trafficking on an all-India level. It
works in close cooperation with the Customs and Central Excise/GST, State
Police Department, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Central Economic
Intelligence Bureau (CEIB) and other Indian intelligence and law enforcement
agencies. The NCB also provides resources and training to the personnel of
India's Drug Law Enforcement Agencies in fighting drug trafficking. The NCB also
monitors India's frontiers to track down points where smuggling activities take
place with foreign traffickers.
The
NCB's national headquarters is located in Delhi. The Director General of NCB is
an officer of the Indian Police Service(IPS) or the Indian Revenue Service(IRS);
currently Rakesh Asthana (IPS) is Director General of NCB. NCB is affiliated
to Home Ministry, which was made responsible for administering The Narcotic
Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. The NCB is outside the ambit of
the Right to information Act under Section 24(1) of the RTI act 2005. So one
cannot file an RTI on NCB for any kind of information related to NCB.
