A syndicate based in Bangladesh, Tripura, Assam and West Bengal in India was smuggling huge quantities of gold from the neighbouring country to India through Indo-Bangla border in the state of Tripura, an official release said on Monday.
The Chief Minister said "Our government has a zero-tolerance policy for drugs. Many generations have been destroyed due to it... During the Communist regime, even we were not aware that this huge quantity of Ganja was supplied in Tripura. After 2018, it came to our notice ...thousands of
According to the general secretary of the Exchange Companies Association of Pakistan, Muhammad Zafar Paracha, traders, and smugglers are bringing as much as USD 5 million across the border daily.
"The arrested drug smuggler was en route to deliver drug consignment after retrieving from the border area," Director General of Police (DGP), Punjab Gaurav Yadav said.
In a joint operation, the Indian Coast Guard alongwith the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Chennai, seized a gold consignment of 17.74 Kg worth approximately Rs 10.5 crore from Mandapam Seashore in Tamil Nadu while the consignment was being smuggled from Sri Lanka by Sea route.
In a joint operation conducted by South Salmara Mankachar police and BSF party, five cattle were rescued from Kesarvita village in Assam's South Salmara Mankachar district along the Indo-Bangladesh border in the early hours of Monday morning. According to police, the smugglers escaped after
Haridwar administration on Friday confiscated movable and immovable properties worth Rs 2.60 crores of seven drug smugglers as part of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami's Drug-free Devbhoomi mission.
Officials of the Border Security Force apprehended one Bangladeshi smuggler red-handed with 10 bottles of Phensedyl and other cosmetic items, officials said on Friday.