India’s first portal on arrested narco offenders ‘NIDAAN’ gets operational

Source: The post is based on the article “India’s first portal on arrested narco offenders ‘NIDAAN’ gets operational” published in Business Standard on 17th August 2022.

What is the News?

The NIDAAN Portal has been made operational for use by various central and state prosecution agencies tasked to enforce anti-drugs laws in the country.

What is the NIDAAN Portal?

Full-Form: NIDAAN stands for National Integrated Database on Arrested Narco-offenders.

Developed by: Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB).

Purpose: It is a first-of-its-kind portal for all narcotics offender-related data.

Key Features: NIDAAN hosts data about those accused who have been arrested and jailed for drug offences and those who are directly or indirectly involved in the produce, manufacture, import or export of any narcotics or psychotropic substance.

– The portal sources its data from the ICJS (inter-operable criminal justice system) and the e-Prisons (a cloud-based application) repository and it is planned to integrate it in the future with the crime and criminal tracking network system or CCTNS.

– A distinct feature called ‘criminal network’ on the portal can also be accessed by agencies, as part of which specific links of an accused to other crimes, linked police FIRs and those who visited them in jail can also be accessed.