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Organised crime[edit]

Further information: Organised crime in India

Illegal drug trade[edit]

India is located between two major illicit opium producing centres in Asia – the Golden Crescent comprising Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran and the Golden Triangle comprising Burma, Thailand and Laos. Because of such geographical location, India experiences large amount of drug trafficking through the borders. India is the world's largest producer of licit opium for the pharmaceutical trade. But an undetermined quantity of opium is diverted to illicit international drug markets.

India is a transshipment point for heroin from Southwest Asian countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan and from Southeast Asian countries like Burma, Laos, and Thailand. Heroin is smuggled from Pakistan and Burma, with some quantities transshipped through Nepal. Most heroin shipped from India are destined for Europe. There have been reports of heroin smuggled from Mumbai to Nigeria for further export.

In Maharashtra, Mumbai is an important centre for distribution of drug. The most commonly used drug in Mumbai is Indian heroin (called desi mal by the local population). Both public transportation (road and rail transportation) and private transportation are used for this drug trade.

Drug trafficking affects the country in many ways.

• Drug abuse: Cultivation of illicit narcotic substances and drug trafficking affects the health of the individuals and destroy the economic structure of the family and society.
• Organised crime: Drug trafficking results in growth of organised crime which affects social security. Organised crime connects drug trafficking with corruption and money laundering.
• Political instability: Drug trafficking also aggravates the political instability in North-West and North-East India.

A survey conducted in 2003–2004 by Narcotics Control Bureau found that India has at least four million drug addicts. The most common drugs used in India are cannabis, hashish, opium and heroin. In 2006 alone, India's law enforcing agencies recovered 230 kg heroin and 203 kg of cocaine. In an annual government report in 2007, the United States named India among 20 major hubs for trafficking of illegal drugs along with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Burma. However, studies reveal that most of the criminals caught in this crime are either Nigerian or US nationals.

Several measures have been taken by the Government of India to combat drug trafficking in the country. India is a party of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961), the Convention on Psychotropic Substances (1971), the Protocol Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1972) and the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (1988). An Indo-Pakistani committee was set up in 1986 to prevent trafficking in narcotic drugs. India signed a convention with the United Arab Emirates in 1994 to control drug trafficking. In 1995, India signed an agreement with Egypt for investigation of drug cases and exchange of information and a Memorandum of Understanding of the Prevention of Illicit Trafficking in Drugs with Iran.

Arms trafficking[edit]

According to a joint report published by Oxfam, Amnesty International and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) in 2006, there are around 40 million illegal small arms in India out of approximately 75 million in worldwide circulation. Majority of the illegal small arms make its way into the states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh. In UP, a used AK-47 costs $3,800 in black market. Large amount of illegal small arms are manufactured in various illegal arms factories in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and sold on the black market for as little as $5.08.

Chinese pistols are in demand in the illegal small arms market in India because they are easily available and cheaper. This trend poses a significant problem for the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh which have influence of Naxalism. The porous Indo-Nepal border is an entry point for Chinese pistols, AK-47 and M-16 rifles into India as these arms are used by the Naxalites who have ties to Maoists in Nepal.

In North-East India, there is a huge influx of small arms due to the insurgent groups operating there. The small arms in North-East India come from insurgent groups in Burma, black markets in Southeast Asia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, black market in Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, insurgent groups like the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the Communist Party of India (Maoist), the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Indian states like Uttar Pradesh and pilferages from legal gun factories, criminal organisations operating in India and South Asian countries and other international markets like Romania, Germany etc. Illegal weaponry found in North-East India includes small arms such as the M14, M16, AK-47, AK-56, and the AK-74, but also light machine guns, Chinese hand grenades, mines, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and submachine guns etc.

The Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Home Affairs drafted a joint proposal to the United Nations, seeking a global ban on small-arms sales to non-state users.

Tobacco

water pipe tobacco

The Crimes in India article talks about a few things it outlines the crimes over all in each state as well as the different type of crimes that being dealt in India. The original article gives a brief understanding of crime started in India with some stats and how each crime escalated to many different crimes overtime. This section will give an understanding about how tobacco effected many states in India and how it became major crime over time. Also how tobacco was used more by young adults and teenagers. For example the different type of organised crimes that are illegal drug trade and arms trafficking. Tobacco is another issue which is under the organised crime section it could also fall under illegal drug trade. Tobacco in India was growing vastly especially in in the southern state of Kerala. A study conducted which states that the overall prevalence of lifetime tobacco use was among minors from the age of 12-19 years and percentage was 6.9 and for males was 12.9 percent while females 1.2 per cent . Using tobacco in public areas is banned especially in important sectors of the city such as school, government offices, etc . The same study also confirms that kids with less of social economic standard are the ones who conceive the tobacco further . Causes of consuming smoking are higher physiological distress , suicidal thoughts and attempts. Some kids would develop ADHD issues from childhood, some worst case scenarios the addiction of smoking tobacco causes the user to have sexual behavior where they would abuse someone else from the continuous use. When people start consuming more tobacco they wont be able to stop it it becomes an addiction just like alcohol and drugs.

According to another scholarly article which had found information that India banned indoor and outdoor in public consumption of WTS in some regions. WTS is water pipe tobacco smoking underneath the world health organization. The reason that WTS was created to maintain control Tobacco in countries but the main issue they face is the regulation of proliferation of producers, importers and manufacturers of water pipe tobacco and accessories. Many multinational companies own tobacco industries so its an issue which WHO faces. Article suggested in 2013 when hookah were banned there were still hookah lounges so the issue still wasn't resolved because there were other means of getting access to hookah. A study found that which measured air quality indoors before and after a smoke free law was executed in the water pipe area cigarette smoking didn't have any complaints and also started allowing smoking in the premise. Another study conducted in different parts of the world concerning adolescents health concerned issues, some of the specific issues in New Delhi was not just rape and alcohol but also tobacco. In the study conducted a person interviewed and he said that he saw a 8-9 year old boy consuming tobacco and Gutkha which is eating the tobacco like drugs. A second study was conducted which focused on specific juvenile kids and the main issue they were arrested in India, i was for Tobacco. however, substance use by Indian children has been documented for more than a decade now. In study the use of tobacco has grown rapidly especially in children in Bengal at least 281 children were reported although only 197 were reported to government this is at least 76% that smoked tobacco and 45.9% chewed on tobacco and 48% were inhaling it . The rapid growth of tobacco in India is due to mainly the availability of many types of tobacco products such as; bidis, cigarettes, cigars, chillum and hookah, also many products which can be consumed not by smoking khani, gutkha, paan with tobacco, paan masala, mawa, gudakha, dry snuff, mishri also some of the product contain toothpaste.

These are just of the few examples of how India consumes tobacco and mainly it happens in North India, but in 2020 many other states such as Kerala, Tamil Nadu are being affected because there is control of products coming from one area to another. Places like New Delhi is the capital of India so they can control the other states through these type of influences. Such as shipping products local goons carrying the item.