Mumbai, May 20 (IANS) The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Mumbai, on Wednesday busted a highly organised gold smuggling syndicate operating through the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International (CSMI) Airport under a targeted operation codenamed ‘Operation Golden Drop’. According to the DRI, acting on specific intelligence inputs, officers intercepted and seized three kg of foreign-origin gold valued at approximately Rs 4.8 crore and arrested one accused.Investigations conducted so fa…
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Agartala, May 16 (IANS) Assam Rifles and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), in a joint operation, seized narcotic substances valued at Rs 8 crore and arrested a suspected drug peddler in Tripura on Saturday, officials said.A Defence Spokesman said the Assam Rifles, in coordination with the DRI, achieved a major breakthrough against narcotics trafficking after seizing a huge consignment of highly addictive methamphetamine tablets from the Mungiakami area in Tripura’s Khowai district.A…
Mumbai, May 14 (IANS) The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Mumbai, has seized diamonds worth over Rs 5.7 crore at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International (CSMI) Airport and arrested two persons for allegedly attempting to smuggle them to Bangkok. According to the DRI, the accused were intercepted at the Mumbai airport based on specific Intelligence inputs. During examination and questioning, both passengers admitted that they had concealed two capsules each inside their bodies.The ca…
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has acquitted a man convicted in a 2012 heroin recovery case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, holding that serious procedural lapses and inconsistencies in the prosecution case created reasonable doubt over the alleged recovery and safe custody of the contraband.A single-judge Bench of Justice Chandrasekharan Sudha, while allowing the appeal filed by Sunil alias Sunil Sharma, set aside the trial court’s judgment convi…
Ahmedabad, May 8 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Crime Branch in Gujarat has arrested a 27-year-old man allegedly linked to a larger narcotics network and seized mephedrone worth more than Rs 14 lakh during a raid in the Danilimda area, police said on Friday.The accused, identified as Noman Sheikh, was arrested from a rented flat at Al-Falah Apartment near Barrel Market in Danilimda following a tip-off received by the Crime Branch.During the raid conducted on May 6, officials recovered 468.640 grams of mep…
Bengaluru, April 22 (IANS) In a significant development in the high-profile gold smuggling case, Kannada actress Ranya Rao is set to be released from jail on Wednesday after completing one year under preventive detention, officials said.Ranya Rao, who is currently lodged at Bengaluru Central Prison, was arrested in connection with an alleged gold smuggling racket involving gold worth Rs 102 crore. The case had drawn widespread attention due to her links to the Kannada film industry and the polic…
Mumbai, April 15 (IANS) The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has busted a gold smuggling syndicate in Mumbai and arrested four persons. During the operation, officials seized gold and silver valued at around Rs 6 crore, along with cash amounting to approximately Rs 3.71 crore. According to the DRI, specific intelligence was developed that two individuals involved in gold smuggling were planning to deliver a consignment of smuggled gold at a shop located on Dhanji Street in Kalbadevi. Ac…
Agartala, April 12 (IANS) The Assam Rifles and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), in a joint operation, have seized highly addictive methamphetamine tablets, valued at over Rs 16 crore, in Tripura and arrested a suspected drug peddler, officials said on Sunday. An Assam Rifles official stated that, in a major blow to narcotics trafficking, the paramilitary force, acting on specific intelligence inputs and in coordination with the DRI, apprehended an individual at Teliamura in Khowai …
Raipur, April 12 (IANS) An illegal wildlife trafficking syndicate involved in the illicit trade of Indian Pangolin scales in Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur has been successfully busted by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Nagpur Regional Unit (DRI, NaRU) of Mumbai Zonal Unit, officials said on Sunday. During the operation, carried out on Sunday, three people were apprehended for their involvement in the illegal dealing and trading of Indian Pangolin scales. A total of 16.528 kg of Indian Pangol…
New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) The rapid rise of crypto-hawala is emerging as a serious concern for security and enforcement agencies, with digital channels increasingly replacing the traditional hawala system that relied on personal trust and informal networks.While the purpose of such transactions remains unchanged, concealing the origin and destination of funds, the method has shifted to technology-driven platforms that make transfers appear routine and harder to detect. Officials say this transit…