The Baramulla police attached properties worth around Rs 15 lakh belonging to a drug peddler in Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Thursday.
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."
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.
Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officers have busted a factory involved in the production and storage of Narcotics at Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, in Maharashtra's Aurangabad, said officials on Sunday.
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.
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.
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.
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.