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Bangla Desh. Cabinet clears Narcotics Control Act draft with death penalty for smuggling, selling yaba - The new law will cover all sorts of narcotic substances, says the Cabinet secretary
Bangla Desh. Cabinet clears Narcotics Control Act draft with death penalty for smuggling, selling yaba - The new law will cover all sorts of narcotic substances, says the Cabinet secretary
The Cabinet has approved in principal the draft of Narcotics Control Act 2018, introducing provisions of death sentence as maximum punishment for anyone involved in producing, smuggling, distributing or using over 5 grams of banned drug yaba or amphetamines.
In the new law, life in jail has been proposed as the minimum punishment for the similar offence. (Dhaka Tribune, Bengla Desh, 08.10.2018)