Partha Protim Das, Superintendent of Police of Karimganj district told ANI that the market value of the seized drugs is estimated at around Rs 42 crore.
Notably, arrested accused Amritpal Singh Fauji, a resident of village Kasel in Tarn Taran, was on the run since August 2024, when his accomplice identified as Sartaj was arrested from Jammu Bus Stand with 33 kg of heroin.
Punjab Police's Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) on Friday arrested a drug inspector for his involvement in facilitating drug smuggling operations connected to illegal pharmaceuticals and medical stores and laundering the drug money in the benami accounts in the names of his relatives.
Mumbai Zonal Unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has disposed of about 982.100 kg of illicit drugs, which were earlier seized by the national nodal drug law enforcement agency. The illicit drugs were seized in various cases wherein numerous offenders, including foreign nationals, were
Students alleged that officers from the Anti-Narcotics Forces, in uniform, entered the hostel and specifically targeted Baloch students for profiling. Eyewitnesses stated that the forces asked irrelevant and personal questions while filming the students.
The drug peddlers have been identified as Javed Ahmed and his son, Abdul Majeed, and the action has been taken under Section 68-F (1) of the NDPS Act 1985.
In order to raise awareness about Qatar's rules and regulations regarding banned narcotics and the import of restricted psychoactive and psychotropic drugs, the Embassy of India and the Indian Community Benevolent Forum (ICBF) organised an online seminar on Tuesday in Doha.
The Border Security Forces on Friday recovered 11 packets of suspected narcotics, weighing approximately 11 kg, from a remote island near the Jakhau Coast in Bhuj.
The Assam Police conducted an anti-narcotics operation in the Jalalpur area on Monday, where the officials seized 1 lakh Yaba tablets and arrested three accused individuals who were allegedly carrying the yaba tablets, according to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
BSF acting on a specific information, recovered one small drone alongwith a packet of suspected heroin in Tarn Taran district on Sunday, officials said.
The Central Board of Secondary Education organised the "Say No to Drugs and Yes to Life" campaign at Modern School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, on Wednesday in collaboration with the Narcotics Control Bureau.