Of the seized amount, the NIA team seized Rs 5.5 lakhs from one suspected account and also recovered Rs 1 lakh that one accused named Gurpreet Singh alias Gopi had stashed away raising the total recovery to Rs 7,80,000 in this case.
Border Security Force recovered packets of heroin during early morning hours on Friday from border fencing areas in Amritsar and Tarn Taran districts of Punjab, , said a press release from BSF.
Pope Francis showed a "clear improvement" on Thursday after he was given intravenous antibiotics for a bronchitis infection, CNN reported. The pontiff could be released from the hospital in the next few days, according to the Vatican.
The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the Hyderabad Customs department intercepted a male passenger arriving from Dubai and recovered two gold rods worth Rs 13.72 lakh at the Rajiv Gandhi International airport on Thursday.
India continued to report over 3,000 COVID cases for the second day in a row with 3,095 new infections in the last 24 hours, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Friday. The country recorded the highest one-day fresh infections in the last nearly six months.
During the examination of the said passenger, 4 capsules of gold in a compound form totally weighing 1063 grams concealed inside his body were recovered and seized.
It stated further that a total of 1,396 recoveries were made from the virus in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 4,41,68,321.
In a breakthrough in its ongoing operation against smuggling, the Serchhip Battalion of Assam Rifles, under the aegis of Inspector General Assam Rifles (East), recovered 235 cases of foriegn cigarettes worth Rs 3.525 crore in a general area Melbuk Refugee Camp, Zokhawthar, in Champhai distri