Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Thursday was detained by Punjab police in connection with the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
The ruling came during the hearing of three petitions filed by convicts who challenged the withholding of remissions to them by the authorities of respective prisons in the light of amendments made in the Control of Narcotics Substance Act (CNSA), 1997, last year.
MoS Rai made the remarks in reply to a written question put forth by Congress MP Kumar Ketkar to the Minister of Home Affairs in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday extended interim relief from arrest granted to former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede till July 5 in the alleged bribery case in the drugs-on-cruise case involving actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan.
Wankhede who has been booked by the CBI for allegedly demanding Rs 25 crore as a bribe for not framing Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan in the drugs-on-cruise case was questioned by the agency on Saturday too for five hours.
The single bench of Justice Deepak Kumar Agarwal directed the Director General of Police (DGP) to pay a sum of Rs 10 lakh to the applicant, Mohit Tiwari as a compensation for his wrongful confinement within a period of two months from the date of judgement and compliance report to this effec
Former Mumbai Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director and IRS officer Sameer Wankhede who previously arrested actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan in a drug case last year reached Mumbai's Chaityabhoomi to pay homage to Babasaheb Ambedkar on his birth anniversary on Friday.
After suffering a brain aneurysm, Tom Sizemore is in critical condition. His manager Charles Lago said that the actor has been "hospitalised in intensive care."