An Israeli national was arrested allegedly after drugs worth Rs 8.72 lakh was recovered from his possession during raids in North Goa's Harambol village, police said on Saturday.
In a joint operation, Assam police and Nagaland police arrested the most wanted narcotics drug trafficking kingpin of North East India from Assam's Sonitpur district. The arrested drug trafficking kingpin was identified as Md. Bahar Uddin and he hails from Jeliagrong, Dimapur in Nagaland.
On the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, acting upon specific intelligence regarding the presence of a huge quantity of narcotics items (Yaba tablets) in a car parked inside the house of one Idrish Mia from Sobhapur village in Tripura's Sepahijala, the BSF conducted a special joint op
A high-level Drug Destruction Committee of CBIC including senior officials of DRI and Mumbai Customs, on Tuesday destroyed 31.948 kg of Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) worth Rs 265 crore, according to an official release.
The Border Security Force (BSF) and Punjab Police in a joint operation thwarted an attempt to produce narcotics in Punjab, by discovering illegal poppy cultivation in bordering areas of Fazilka District on Monday. One person was arrested with 14.40 kgs of opium.
Troops of the Border Security Forces recovered a packet suspected to contain heroin weighing approximately 610 grams in Punjab's Tarn Taran district, officials said on Sunday.
The statement said a well-coordinated effort by the BSF and Punjab Police, aided by reliable information, successfully thwarted yet another attempt by a narco-syndicate to smuggle a substantial amount of narcotics into India from across the border.
Pakistan Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi announced the closing of the narcotics control ministry office and integration of its operations into the interior minister, citing reasons as "eliminating unnecessary burden on National exchequer", ARY News reported.
Tamil Nadu's main opposition party, AIADMK, conducted a human chain protest in Nagapattinam on Tuesday, alleging failure on the part of the DMK government in the state to contain the alleged widespread narcotics trade in the state.
A Pakistani boat carrying drugs worth Rs 480 crore was intercepted near Gujarat's Porbandar in an overnight operation, an official statement on Tuesday said.
Trichy Customs Preventive Unit thwarted a major smuggling operation, seizing a large cache of Hashish worth Rs. 110 crores and 876 Kgs of Ganja worth Rs. 1.05 Crores at Mimisal Mimisal village of Pudukottai district.
Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi on Sunday expressed apprehension over the drug cartel in the state after the Narcotics Control Bureau arrested a Tamil film producer, Jaffer Sadiq accused of being the kingpin in a Rs 2,000-crore international drug trafficking racket.