Surat, July 3 (IANS) Three men have been sentenced to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment each by a special court in Surat after being convicted in a ganja trafficking case involving the seizure of more than 562 kg of the narcotic, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) said on Friday. According to the NCB’s Ahmedabad Zonal Unit, the case stemmed from an operation carried out on May 4 and 5, 2020, when officers, acting on specific and reliable intelligence, intercepted three persons at Krishna Industry …
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Agartala, July 2 (IANS) The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials on Thursday seized a huge consignment of banned cough syrup worth over Rs 6.54 crore from a goods train at the Agartala Railway Station after it arrived from Bihar, officials said. The seizure of 55,626 bottles (100 ml each) of Eskuf Cough Syrup and Fairdyl Cough Syrup, both of which are often abused as narcotic substances, is the second-largest recovery of such an illegal consignment from a goods train in Tripura af…
Surat, July 1 (IANS) The Special Operations Group (SOG) of Surat City Police has arrested two men from Odisha and seized 20 kilograms of ganja valued at Rs 10 lakh during a raid at a residential premises in the Ved Road area of Gujarat’s Surat as part of an ongoing drive against narcotics trafficking in the city, officials said on Wednesday.Acting on specific intelligence, an SOG team raided Room No. 2 on the second floor of House No. 48 in Meena Nagar Co-operative Housing Society, opposite Akha…
Ahmedabad, June 30 (IANS) Customs officers at the Foreign Post Office (FPO) in Ahmedabad have seized a parcel originating from Thailand after discovering 467.5 grams of suspected ganja concealed inside and declared as “wooden blocks”, officials said on Tuesday. The seizure was made during the routine examination of imported parcels at the FPO.According to Customs, officers intercepted a suspicious carton arriving from Thailand that had been declared as “wooden blocks”.On opening the package, the…
Ahmedabad, June 28 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Rural Police of Gujarat have seized 358 bottles of suspected intoxicating cough syrup worth Rs 70,884 from a pick-up truck and arrested one man during a targeted anti-narcotics operation in the Aslali area of the district. The seizure was made near Satva Arcade Complex on the Sarkhej-Dholka Road following specific intelligence inputs about the transportation of illicit cough syrup.Police intercepted a vehicle from which 358 bottles of intoxicating cough sy…
Ahmedabad, June 28 (IANS) Customs officers at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport (SVPIA) here have seized 10.91 kg of hydroponic marijuana valued at around Rs 11 crore from a passenger arriving from Bangkok, officials said on Sunday.The seizure was made by officers of the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Ahmedabad Customs on Sunday after the passenger, who hails from Mangrol town of Junagadh district, arrived on Thai Airways flight TG-343 from Bangkok.During examination of the checked-…
Ahmedabad, June 26 (IANS) The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Friday seized 2.08 lakh Tramadol tablets with an estimated international market value of Rs 8.32 crore and arrested an alleged interstate drug trafficker from Rajasthan, saying the accused had supplied more than 62.54 lakh tablets across multiple states in just over a month. According to officials, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) S.L. Chaudhary received intelligence that Paresh Jain, who was residing in Pardi in Valsad di…
Kohima, June 26 (IANS) Senior Naga leader and Advisor for Nagaland Social Welfare Department Wangpang Konyak has called upon churches, educational institutions, civil society organisations and community groups to play a proactive and coordinated role in combating the growing menace of substance abuse, stressing that protecting the younger generation requires collective action beyond government efforts. Addressing a programme organised on International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficki…
Ahmedabad/Surat, June 26 (IANS) Gujarat Police marked the ‘International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking’ on Friday with large-scale public awareness events in Ahmedabad and Surat, as senior officers reiterated the state’s commitment to tackling narcotics trafficking and preventing drug abuse through sustained enforcement and community participation.In Ahmedabad, the Gujarat Police’s Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) organised a cyclothon at the Sabarmati Riverfront to spread aware…
Gandhinagar, June 26 (IANS) Gujarat Police have seized more than 1.36 lakh kilograms of narcotic substances worth over Rs 13,600 crore and arrested 5,346 people in connection with drug trafficking cases over the past five years, as the state intensified its campaign against organised drug networks and international smuggling operations. The figures were released ahead of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26, with senior state officials highlighting the resu…