During the raids, sleuths recovered over 56 kgs of drugs worth Rs 40 crores. "The cost of the seized drugs recovered from the possession of the arrest accused persons is estimated to be Rs 40 crore in the international market," the sleuths of the special cell said.
The sleuths of Special Operation Team (SOT) Maheshwaram Zone team along with Adibatla police on Wednesday busted a drug racket by apprehending one interstate drug peddler.
In the disposal programme Guwahati city police destroyed 3217 kg of ganja, 7.252 kg of heroin, 1.86 lakh tablets, 16.88 kg of brown sugar, 20043 bottles of cough syrup, 22.30 kg of opium, 843 grams of raw materials of brown sugar at Chandrapur area in Guwahati.
In this regard, the official media handle of Samba police took to Twitter and said, "Samba Police today arrested two notorious narco-suppliers and recovered heroin worth Rs 50,000 approximately, opium straw weighing 1.450 Kg."
In a separate report, UNODC said that Afghanistan is home to an estimated 3.5 million drug users, which account for nearly 10 per cent of the total population.
The drug cartel uses Pakistani sources to facilitate the acquisition of chemicals required to produce drugs. Moreover, the diverse nationalities are used as hostages until their cartels can afford to pay for the delivery of the drugs, and in return, the terrorist groups offer security servic
Border Security Force (BSF) shot down a Pakistani drone sneaking into the Indian territory, carrying packets of Heroin and Opium, near Dhanoe Kalan village of Punjab's Amritsar, officials said on Thursday.
Bareilly Police arrested six people including four members of the same family from Aonla area for allegedly making opium and smack and supplying them to other districts including Delhi and Noida.
Jharkhand Police on Monday destroyed the cultivation of Opium on a 1-acre land in Jobang Uldag of ultra-naxalite affected forest area of Lohardaga district.