Ahmedabad, July 9 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Customs Department has seized 5.368 kg (gross) of hydroponic marijuana from a passenger who arrived from Bangkok at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport (SVPIA), marking the latest in a series of narcotics interceptions on the Thailand-Ahmedabad route. According to sources, officers of the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) intercepted a male passenger after he arrived on Thai Airways flight TG-343 from Bangkok on Wednesday following passenger profiling….
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Shillong, July 7 (IANS) The Meghalaya High Court has directed the state government to place on record updated details of cases registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in and around Shillong including its main market place — the busy Police Bazar area, following concerns raised in a public interest litigation (PIL) over the alleged prevalence of drug peddling in the locality, officials said on Tuesday.The direction was issued by a division bench of Chief Justic…
Guwahati, July 7 (IANS) Two alleged drug peddlers were arrested and a cache of suspected psychotropic substances, along with cash believed to be linked to the illegal narcotics trade, was seized during an anti-drug operation in Assam’s Dhubri district, officials said on Tuesday.The action was carried out following specific intelligence inputs regarding the alleged sale of narcotic and psychotropic substances in the Chotobajani area under Dhubri Police Station.Acting on the information, a police …
Aizawl, July 6 (IANS) The Assam Rifles, in coordination with the Excise and Narcotics Department, seized highly addictive methamphetamine tablets worth approximately Rs 3.30 crore in eastern Mizoram’s Champhai district, officials said on Monday. A defence spokesman said that acting on specific intelligence inputs, troops of the Assam Rifles, in association with the Excise and Narcotics Department, carried out a joint operation in the Zote area of Champhai district, which shares a mountainous int…
Mumbai, July 6 (IANS) In a major operation against narcotics trafficking, the DRI seized 2.128 kg of cocaine, valued at Rs 10.65 crore in the illicit market, from female passenger arriving from Freetown via Nairobi at Mumbai airport, an official said on Monday. Acting on specific intelligence, officers of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Mumbai Zonal Unit, intercepted the female passenger on her arrival on July 5 at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA), the off…
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 …
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…