Delhi Police special cell arrested three persons involved in supplying party drugs. A total of 64 grams fine quality cocaine and 20 pills of ecstasy have been recovered from the possession of the accused persons, DCP of Special Cell Amit Kaushik said on Sunday.
The Jammu and Kashmir police have attached the property of an infamous drug peddler at Handwara in the Kupwara district under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS), said the police in an official statement on Thursday.
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 a major crackdown, at least 95 people were detained after the police raided a rave party in Maharashtra's Thane city in the early hours of Sunday, police said.
According to Bhanupada Superintendent of Police (SP) Bhanupada Chakraborty, "Acting on confidential information from a reliable source, Police Inspector Shuburanjan Dey in Kadamtala Police Station arrested Rashid Ahmed with 437gm of heroin worth Rs 40 lakh on Wednesday."
Based on intelligence input, a raid was conducted by a team of STF, Bhubaneswar near Jodiaghati in Keonjhar on Monday evening against illegal dealing and possession of narcotic drugs.
The land has been seized under Section 68-F of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act 1985, police said, adding that the drug peddler was found involved in two separate cases under Sections 8 and 21 of the NDPS Act at Kralgund police station.
As a part of Special Campaign 3.0, Delhi's Customs Preventive Zone destroyed 328 kg of narcotic substances, valued at Rs 284 crore, and 80.2 lakh sticks of foreign-origin cigarettes, worth Rs 9.85 crore, said an official statement.
In Punjab's Kapurthala city, several cases of women involved in the drug trade have come to the fore. With husbands in prison, their wives have stepped into the drug trafficking, continuing the illicit narcotics trade in the city.
Under Operation 'Nanhe Faristey,' RPF has successfully rescued 895 children, including 573 boys and 322 girls, who were in need of care and protection, read the Ministry of Railways press release.