From opium fields in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan to ganja farms in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, and from charas-producing belts of Himachal and Uttarakhand to the pharma hubs of Himachal’s Baddi and Uttarakhand’s Haridwar — narcotics are flowing steadily into Haryana, feeding a crisis that has gripped the state’s youth.

A study by the Haryana State Narcotics Control Bureau (HSNCB) has mapped out the vast network through which heroin, ganja, charas, opium, pharmaceutical drugs, and even synthetic narcotics are trafficked into the state.

Sirsa, Fatehabad, Dabwali, Ambala, Hisar, Panipat, Yamunanagar, Jind, Kaithal, Panchkula and Kurukshetra have emerged as heroin hubs, with supply routes traced through Punjab’s Amritsar, Ferozepur, Bathinda, Sangrur and Jalandhar. Delhi’s Vikaspuri, Karol Bagh and Dwarka also figure prominently, as do Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur, Bareilly and Aligarh.

The ganja belt stretches across Gurugram, Faridabad, Palwal, Jhajjar, Rewari, Karnal, Jind and Bhiwani. Supplies originate from Odisha’s Koraput, Berhampur, Rayagada, and Kalahandi besides Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh.

Charas infiltrates Haryana through Himachal’s Kullu, Shimla, and Sirmaur, the Uttarakhand-Nepal border at Banbasa, and regions of UP, Bihar, and Jammu & Kashmir. Ambala, Panchkula, Kaithal, Panipat, Sonepat, Rohtak, Jind, Hisar, and Yamunanagar are most affected.

The opium trail runs through Sirsa, Fatehabad, Hisar, Dabwali, Kurukshetra, Karnal, and Kaithal, supplied from MP’s Mandsaur and Neemuch, Rajasthan’s Ajmer and Chittorgarh, and UP’s Bareilly and Varanasi. Some consignments also come via Nepal’s Champawat border and Manipur’s Imphal Valley.

Pharmaceutical abuse — spanning tablets, syrups, injections, and capsules — has spread across Yamunanagar, Karnal, Panipat, Rohtak, Panchkula, Ambala, Nuh and Kurukshetra. The illegal pharma pipeline originates in Himachal’s Baddi and Sirmaur, Haridwar in Uttarakhand, several UP districts and Delhi.

The Sirsa-Fatehabad-Hisar belt dominates the poppy straw trade, with consignments camouflaged as fodder from MP, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Bihar. Gurugram, Faridabad, Dabwali and Panchkula have also emerged as centres for synthetic drug abuse, with MDMA, LSD, and cocaine trafficked via Delhi, Kolkata and Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh.

Between January and August 2025, the HSNCB registered 188 FIRs and arrested 341 people, including 50 in commercial quantity cases. Statewide, 2,462 NDPS cases were registered during the same period, leading to 4,162 arrests and 307 CQ seizures.

From 2020 to August 2025, 1,620 FIRs resulted in 2,823 arrests, including 244 commercial, 981 intermediate, and 295 small quantity cases. HSNCB seizures between January and August 2025 included pharmaceuticals (16.66%), opium (13.82%), poppy straw (13.11%), and charas (9.94%).

DGP OP Singh said the bureau was committed to tackling the menace at its root. “The HSNCB’s policy is zero tolerance against drugs. We will not only seize narcotics but also dismantle the source and destination of trafficking. We are breaking the inter-state networks of the drug peddlers,” he asserted.