Illegal drugs seized by police are supposed to be quickly destroyed after being presented to the court as evidence against narco-traffickers.

For Belgian authorities, smuggled illegal drugs intercepted in the port of Antwerp are impounded in an undisclosed site before they are incinerated. However, last month's seized cocaine shipment from Suriname weighing six tons could not be quickly destroyed.

"If we have a huge drug bust, in terms of five to eight tons, not everything can be immediately destroyed because of the capacity of the incinerators and in terms of environmental restrictions on the destruction of large amounts of drugs," Federal Public Service Finance spokesperson Francis Adyns told Euronews last week.

Belgian police have asked the incinerator operator to expand its capacity as soon as possible since the backlog of undestroyed narcotics is growing with more illegal drugs being discovered and confiscated by police this year.

Police in India's Uttar Pradesh state, for their part, seemed to have no trouble in promptly destroying seized illegal drugs stored in their stations, only that they have yet to present them in court.

Judge Sanjay Chaudhary learned about this when police could not present to him 195 kilograms of seized cannabis in one case of drug trafficking and 386 kilograms in another case.

The police admitted to the judge they couldn't do anything to prevent the disappearance of the confiscated cannabis. According to police officials, the 195 kilos of cannabis were eaten by rats.