Former Punjab Chief Minister, Captain Amarinder Singh, on Sunday, slammed the present Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann over his claims of recovery of the Rs 55 lakh spent on the "cosy stay" of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari.
"For reasons best known to them, both Captain and Randhawa extended largesse to the notorious gangster for his comfortable stay in the jails of Punjab," said Mann.
Utilising the state-of-the-art facility, the team comprising Indian Naval Divers and Marine Commandos underwent recovery training of crew modules in varied sea conditions, read the read Ministry of Defence press release.
Partha Sarathi Mahanta, DIG of STF told ANI that, based on secret information the Kamrup district police late Saturday night launched an operation and recovered 700 grams of heroin from a vehicle and arrested three drug peddlers.
The painting, "Madonna with Child" by Italian Baroque-Era painter Alessandro Turchi, was handed over to the Polish Embassy in Tokyo in late May at no expense to Poland. However, it is unclear how the piece ended up in the ownership of its previous Japanese owner.
Border Security Force jawans on Saturday recovered two plastic bottles containing heroin floating on the Sutlej river near the bordering villages in Firozpur, Punjab, said an official statement.
Massive protest rallies were taken out in Pakistan's Quetta and Karachi on Thursday demanding recovery of missing Baloch people, victims of forced disappearances in the Balochistan province.
Assam Rifles recovered heroin and foreign origin cigarettes worth of Rs 2.07 crore in Zote and Zokhawthar of Champhai district, an official statement said Friday.