Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare inaugurated the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) Sub Zonal office and Central Drug Testing Laboratory (CDTL) in Indore, Madhya Pradesh on Sunday.
In a joint operation, police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on Sunday seized 20,000 Yaba tablets worth Rs 4 crore in Assam's Cachar district and arrested two drug peddlers.
In a proactive move to address the escalating challenge of the drug menace in Tripura, a joint state-level Anti-Narcotics operational group meeting was organised in the Agartala sector of Assam Rifles on Saturday, officials said.
In another major step towards demolishing the terrorist-gangster-drug smuggler nexus in the country, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday attached four properties owned by members of dreaded gangster Lawrence Bishnoi's organised terror-crime syndicate.
With the arrest of five drug peddlers, including a woman, Jammu and Kashmir police claimed to have busted a narco module in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, an official statement said.
Launching a scathing attack on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) directed a CBI probe into alleged procurement and supply of spurious and non-standard drugs in government hospitals and mohalla clinics in the national capital, the BJP's Delhi chief Vir
A bench of Justices BR Gavai and Sandeep Mehta sought a response from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Uttar Pradesh through Hazratganj Police Station and Food Safety and Drug Administration in two weeks.
According to sources, the ministry has asked the CBI to register FIR into the supply of "sub-standard" drugs to Delhi government-run hospitals on Friday.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday granted bail to MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira in a case registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and the Arms Act. However, before he could be released from prison, the Punjab police arrested him in a fresh case.
"In an 8-year-old drug case, my father was arrested even after the Supreme Court quashed the summoning order. In that case, today the High Court gave us regular bail but Punjab Police secretly registered another case against my father so that he won't be able to come out of jail," Congress M