Guwahati Customs destroyed cigarettes valued at over Rs 29 crores and Ganja worth over Rs 14 crores as part of Special Campaign 3.0, officials said on Thursday.
The sleuths of the Special Operations Team (SOT), Maheshwaram Zone team along with Choutuppal Police, Rachakonda busted an interstate drug syndicate and arrested two drug peddlers on Friday. 200 kgs of Ganja and a vehicle all worth Rs. 70 lakhs were seized.
Diganta Borah, Commissioner of Police, Guwahati said "On the intervening night of October 10 and 11, a huge quantity of suspected ganja loaded in an oil tanker bearing registration number NL-01AH-0501 coming from Meghalaya side towards Basistha, was recovered and seized by a joint team of Ce
According to an official release, the drugs were seized by Hyderabad Customs and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Hyderabad on various counts, which include Narcotic drug 27.9 kg heroin worth 195.37 crores, Mephedrone worth 272.55 crores and Ganja.
Two people have been arrested under provisions of the NDPS Act by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Nagpur after they seized 520 kgs of 'Ganja' valued at Rs 1.04 Crore on Tuesday.
Acccused was arrested in the case after he surrendered in December 2022. While granting bail to accused, the court noted the fact that no recovery was effected from the accused.
After the inauguration, Swamy, who is also holding the Prohibition and Excise portfolio said, "The quality as well as speed of tests of adulterated liquor, natu Sara, Ganja and narcotic drugs could be increased by using advanced equipment."
'Ganja' and cell phones are the common contraband items that are most frequently smuggled into the prisons among others, the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs raised alarm in its recent report.
The team of NCB, Indore conducted operations in seven cities across six states and recovered 130 kg of ganja. The cities include Janjgir Champa, (Chhattisgarh), Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Sawai Madhopur, (Rajasthan), Delhi, Lucknow, (UP), Rohtak (Haryana), Nandurbar (Maharashtra), officials said
"At the facility, 60.3628 kg of illicit narcotics, including 56.346 kg Heroin, 2.150 kg MDMA Hydrochloride, 0.2193 Kg Marijuana, and 1.6475 Kg Ganja along with 10,894 NDPS-TIDIGESIC capsules weighing 87 kg were destroyed by incineration," said the release.
The Narcotics Intelligence Bureau's Criminal Investigation Department (NIB-CID) has arrested 336 drug traffickers and seized 1,184 Kg of ganja worth Rs 1,18,40,000 in a span of 15 days, from August 28 to September 11 this year.