In a crackdown on drug trafficking, the Telangana Police arrested an interstate drug peddler and seized over 30 kg of ganja, valued at about Rs 8.5 lakh, officials said on Sunday.
In a major breakthrough towards curbing the illicit drug trafficking in Mumbai and adjoining areas, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Mumbai seized 31.5 kg of mephedrone and arrested three accused in this connection.
Hernandez has previously denied the charges against him. At his sentencing on Wednesday, he insisted that he was innocent and was "wrongly and unjustly accused."
Ahead of International Day against drug abuse and drug trafficking which is scheduled on June 26, the Narcotics Control Bureau organised a bike rally to raise awareness for an addiction-free India in the presence of Deputy Director General Neeraj Kumar Gupta on Saturday.
"The suspects, Azmiri Begum from Bihar and Shalini Das from West Bengal were found with several packets of cannabis in their bags. Preliminary investigations revealed they had travelled from Agartala to Panisagar by train, then to Damcherra by auto-rickshaw, intending to enter Assam," police
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has chargesheeted seven more accused in the sensational Attari 100-plus kilogram narcotic haul case valued at Rs 700 crore, the agency said on Saturday.
In an achievement in the fight against drug trafficking, Border Security Force (BSF), in a joint operation with the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), has successfully seized a major consignment of Yaba tablets valued at about Rs 15 crore, officials said.
ED's Dehradun unit arrested Banmeet Singh, a resident of Haldwani in Uttarakhand, under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, on May 29.
During the raid late night on Tuesday, 400 bottles of brown sugar, approximately 300 empty vials, and cash amounting to Rs 125,510 were recovered, police said.
In a significant crackdown on drug trafficking, Police attached illegal properties worth crores belonging to two notorious drug peddlers in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian.
The Sopore Police on Wednesday attached a one-story residential house valued at approximately 16 lakhs and 10 marlas of land valued at approximately 21 lakhs located in the Reban village of Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir.