Narcotics Control Bureau Headquarters, in a joint operation with the Special Cell of Delhi Police, claimed to have busted an international drug trafficking gang network involved in the trafficking of precursor chemicals, officials said on Saturday.
In a major achievement for the UP government in its ongoing crusade against drug dealers, the Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF), formed under the guidance of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, has filed 110 cases and arrested 293 accused in the last two and a half years.
Launching a scathing attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his 'Nashedi' remarks, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shehzad Poonawalla said that these people, who are still intoxicated with power, call the public drug addicts, and this clearly means how desperate the grand old party is.
"We caught a person and recovered 30 soap boxes and four leather bags containing heroin weighing 4.765 kg from his possession. The market value of the seized drugs is estimated at around Rs 24 crore," ASP Subrata Sen said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his 'drunken youth' remark and said that he was "shocked" upon hearing the term 'nashedi' used to describe the youth of Uttar Pradesh.
In a joint operation, Assam Rifles and police seized 39 grams of brown sugar worth Rs 27.30 lakh and arrested one drug peddler in Assam's Cachar district on Thursday, an official said.
The Assam Rifles and Mizoram Police, in a joint operation, seized 11.397 kg of methamphetamine tablets and 218 grams of heroin worth more than Rs 35 crore in the Champhai district of Mizoram on Wednesday, officials said.
In a joint operation, Assam police and Assam Rifles recovered nearly 421 grams of heroin and arrested a drug peddler in Assam's Cachar district on Wednesday.
A consignment containing 190 strips of the psychotropic drug Tapentadol was seized at the Cargo Terminal of Srinagar International Airport, Drug control department of Jammu and Kashmir said in a statement on Wednesday.
Going all guns blazing at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remark that he spotted youths passed out drunk on the streets of Varanasi and elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh during his ongoing 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra', former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the former has