The Enforcement Directorate has conducted search operations at seven locations in Punjab's Patiala in connection with a gold smuggling case, the agency said in a statement on Thursday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation filed a chargesheet against seven accused, including a Delhi-based private company, its director, the then Superintendent of Customs and private persons, in connection with a gold smuggling case.
Punjab Police busted a drug smuggling racket with the arrest of four persons and recovered 3 kg heroin and Rs 9 lakh money from their possession, said Commisioner of Police, Amritsar, Gurpreet Singh Bhullar here on Tuesday.
The STF conducted a raid near Akhusingi Chowk on National Highway 326 (Berhampur-Rayagada) which falls under the jurisdiction of Padampur police station, regarding the dealing or possession of wildlife products by wildlife criminals.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) Siliguri unit seized Asiatic elephant tusks (ivory) weighing around 7.5 kg from Rajdhani Express at New Jalpaiguri railway station Saturday afternoon. Two accused have been arrested in the tusk smuggling case.
Assam Police foiled an interstate cattle smuggling bid and recovered 70 cattle heads from two trucks at the Jorabat area in Assam's Kamrup (Metro) district along the Assam-Meghalaya border on Saturday.
The Border Security Force and Punjab Police's State Special Operation Cell (SSOC) apprehended two smugglers and seized 1 kg of heroin from Punjab's Ferozepur district on Wednesday, according to a press release by the BSF Punjab Frontier.
The Border Security Force (BSF), in a joint operation with the Punjab Police, recovered 555 grammes of a contraband item suspected to be heroin from a sugarcane field near the Dhubri village of Punjab's Gurdaspur district, according to an official press release by the BSF Punjab Frontier.
Punjab police on Wednesday carried out a special operation 'OPS Seal-V', aiming to check all the vehicles entering or exiting the border state of Punjab to keep a tab at drug trafficking and liquor smuggling, besides, keeping vigil on the movement of gangsters and anti-social elements.