JUDGMENT- M.F. SALDANHA, J.:---In 1985 the Indian Parliament promulgated the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, a piece of legislation specifically aimed at combating offences relating to drugs. The Act provides for control and regulatory measures in an area which is fast attracting sensitive attention in our country. Drug addiction has become one of the curses in the dissolution of human personality, promoting conditions for various forms of human degradation, whose consequence spread to crime and lawlessness. One of its tragedies lies in its morbid assault on youth resulting, more often than not, in mental disorientation and emotional derangement, pushing the victim towards a fate from which there is seldom any hope of recovery. The evil is insidious and operates secretly, and it often comes to be known to others only after the addict has crossed the point of no return. The consequences are far-reaching, because in attacking the younger generation of a country, it destroys the flower of a nations future. History porvides many examples of the wilful subversion of a nations culture, its social values and its integrity by the systematic corruption of its young through

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