New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has granted regular bail to an accused booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, holding that the failure of the investigating agency to furnish written “grounds of arrest” violated the constitutional safeguards guaranteed under Article 22(1) of the Constitution.A single-judge Bench of Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani, while allowing the bail plea of one Brijesh Kothia, said the requirement of informing an arrestee abou…
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New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in coordination with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), and Delhi Police, has successfully secured the extradition of wanted fugitive Prabhdeep Singh from Azerbaijan to India, an official statement said on Wednesday.Prabhdeep Singh, who was the subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice, was wanted in connection with a case registered at the Special Cell Police Station in New Delhi under various p…
Mumbai, May 11 (IANS) In a major anti-narcotics operation, the Kandivali Unit of the Mumbai Police’s Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) arrested two alleged drug suppliers and seized 765 grams of heroin valued at approximately Rs 3.82 crore in the international market, officials said on Monday.The operation was carried out near Yari Road in the Versova area of Andheri, following specific intelligence inputs received by the police regarding suspected drug trafficking activity in the locality.The arreste…
Pune, May 10 (IANS) The Wagholi Police in Pune have busted a major MD (Mephedrone) drug network and arrested eight accused who were allegedly involved in supplying narcotics across the city and nearby rural areas, while also planning to establish an MD drug manufacturing unit in the outskirts of the district, officials said on Sunday. During the operation, police seized contraband and assets collectively valued at nearly Rs 1.16 crore, officials added.According to the police, the case began on A…
Aizawl, May 9 (IANS) Seventeen prisoners, including convicts and undertrial prisoners lodged in Mizoram’s Lunglei district jail, were allegedly illegally released using forged court documents and fake release orders, police said on Saturday. Most of the released inmates have since been traced and re-arrested.According to Mizoram Police, the 17 prisoners — including those convicted or facing trial under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Su…
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) Delhi Customs officials at the Indira Gandhi International Airport have seized 34,935 grams of suspected hydroponic marijuana from two passengers who arrived from Bangkok on flight TG-323, officials said on Thursday. The contraband was detected after the passengers were flagged through the Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) profiling and intercepted by Customs officers after they crossed the Green Channel at the airport.According to officials, the passengers came…
Raipur, May 8 (IANS) In a significant achievement of the Police and their ongoing campaign against the illegal narcotics trade, a court in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur on Friday delivered a stern judgment against two individuals involved in drug trafficking. This sentencing comes as a direct result of effective policing and a meticulous investigation conducted by the Kotwali Police Station.The accused, identified as Ravindra Punem and Anshu Gonet, have each been sentenced to 15 years of rigorous impri…
Srinagar, May 7 (IANS) Police in J&K’s Srinagar district said on Thursday that it has attached property worth Rs 2 crore belonging to notorious drug peddlers. A police statement said today, continuing its sustained crackdown against drug trafficking under the ongoing 100-Day Nasha Mukt Jammu & Kashmir Abhiyan, Srinagar Police has attached immovable properties worth over Rs 2 crore belonging to notorious drug peddlers in the Chanapora and Qamarwari areas of Srinagar.In the first action,…
Bengaluru, May 5 (IANS) Six people, including two inter-state operatives and four locals, have been arrested by the Bengaluru police on Tuesday for allegedly selling illegal narcotic substances in the Yeshwanthpur and Nandini Layout areas of the city.The arrests were made following multiple raids conducted within the limits of Yeshwanthpur Police Station (in two separate cases) and Nandini Layout Police Station (in one case) based on credible information received from informants on different dat…
Chandigarh, May 4 (IANS) In a crackdown on organised crime in Punjab’s border-sharing villages, the police in Tarn Taran have come down heavily on the drug trade involving Pakistan, which had been enabling gangsters to finance and run their illegal operations in the state. Over the past three months, since the ‘Gangstran te Vaar’ operation by the government, the district police have registered 490 cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, arrested 630 individua…