Highlighting centre's efforts in combating drug menace in the country, Union home ministry stated that the seized drugs during the Modi government were thirty times as compared to the previous government from 2016-2013.
Illicit market value of these narcotics drugs and psychotropic substances has been reported to be more than Rs 250 crores which have been seized under the relevant provisions of the NDPS Act, 1985, the DRI said.
An FIR under the NDPS (Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances) Act has been registered against the duo in the Paonta Sahib Police Station, they said.
Delhi Police's Special Cell on Thursday arrested three people from the African continent who are allegedly part of an international narcotics Drugs Syndicate.
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
In a major crackdown on the menace of drugs in the national capital, the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police has arrested 776 narco-offenders under Operation Kawach in 615 cases of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) and recovered about 36 kgs of heroin this year to the date,
"A gang selling narcotic injections was put under surveillance. Eight people were arrested. Seven thousand injections of narcotic drugs from their possession. They were caught in three cases within two days," Visakhapatnam CP Trivikram Varma said.
The Director General of Police, Himachal Pradesh said on Monday, stated about the convictions given by the courts in seven different cases related to the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS).
Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah will inaugurate first National Conference of Anti Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) heads' of states and Union Territories (UTs) here in the national capital on Wednesday.