When the Punjab government decided on Tuesday that no private person will be allowed to operate more than five drug de-addiction centres in the state, the move was meant to bring transparency to a system that has come to be mired in controversy. Nowhere is the crisis more apparent than in the case of 22 private centres being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate after allegations emerged of fake patient admissions, procuring more drugs than required, and peddling them in the open market, The Indian Express found.

All 22 were run by one man, Chandigarh -based doctor Amit Bansal. The facilities were spread across 16 districts in Punjab and one in Chandigarh, and are now all shuttered. While other private players were running de-addiction centres in Punjab too, this was the highest b

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