The cabinet on Thursday approved in principle the draft of the Drugs Act, 2022 intensifying the punishment for several anomalies and offenses to the maximum 10-year jail and Tk 10 lakh penalty.
The approval was given at the regular cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held at the Bangladesh Secretariat, reports BSS.
The premier joined the meeting virtually from her official residence Ganabhaban, while her cabinet colleagues were present at the meeting room of the Cabinet Division.
Briefing the reporters after the meeting at Bangladesh Secretariat, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam said the highest punishment of 10-year imprisonment, Tk 10 lakh penalty or both were kept in several sections of the draft law for the drug related anomalies and offenses.
In the existing law, there is a maximum three-year jail and Taka two lakh fine for the irregularities.
