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By Our Legal Correspondent
NEW DELHI, APRIL 12 . The Supreme Court has held that technicalities should not stand in the way of the law-enforcing agency in curbing the menace of nefarious activities such as smuggling of narcotic and psychotropic drugs. A three-judge Bench, comprising the Chief Justice R.C. Lahoti, Justice G.P. Mathur and Justice P.K. Balasubramanyan, pointed out that drug abuse was a social malady. "While drug addiction eats into the vitals of society, drug-trafficking not only eats into the vitals of the economy of a country, but illicit money generated by drug-trafficking is often used for illicit activities, including encouragement of terrorism." "It has acquired the dimensions of an epidemic, affects the economic policies of the State, corrupts the system and is detrimental to the future of a country. It is, therefore, absolutely imperative that those who indulge in this kind of nefarious activities should not go scot-free on technical pleas... ."
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