During the same period, their efforts also resulted in substantial seizures, including confiscating 491 kilogrammes of drugs and 3,333,916 narcotic pills.
The Border Security Force (BSF), in a joint operation with Punjab Police, recovered three packets of a narcotics substance weighing around 3 kilograms from the outskirts of Machiwara Village in Ferozepur district of Punjab on Sunday morning, according to an official statement.
In a joint operation, Assam Rifles and Kamalpur police station on Tuesday seized 23 grams of drugs worth over Rs 9.2 lakhs and apprehended a person in Tripura's Dhalai district, officials informed through a statement.
Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai on Tuesday said in the Lok Sabha that in a special campaign by Ministry of Home Affairs till now more than 10.1 lakh kg of drugs have been destroyed and 1.40 lakh kg of narcotics were destroyed in a single day on July 17.
"In yet another success in its crusade against Narco terrorism, the Srikona Battalion of Agartala Sector Assam Rifles under the aegis of Inspector General Assam Rifles (East), recovered 13 soap cases of Heroin worth approx. Rs 80 lakhs from Chotabekra, Jiribam district and apprehended three
Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday booked a drug peddler at Mendhar in Poonch under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act(PIT NDPS Act).
According to officials, the operation was carried out by a combined team of Company Operating Base (COB) Champhai, Serchhip Battalion and Excise and Narcotics Department Champhai, based on specific information on August 1.
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
Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nisith Pramanik in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday said that anti-national elements/smugglers were using drones for smuggling of Arms/Narcotics across India-Pakistan border in the state of Punjab.