drug trafficking

Kochi, March 19 A 18-year-old girl and a 24-year-old man were arrested in Kothamangalam on Thursday for alleged drug trafficking, according to Excise officials.A senior Excise official stated that over 37 grams of MDMA were allegedly seized from the pair.According to the official, the...

Beed, March 19 Police have seized nearly 22 kilograms of cannabis from a farm in the Beed district of Maharashtra and arrested a woman in connection with the incident, officials said on Thursday.The operation was carried out in Lonwal village in the Wadwani tehsil on Wednesday, based on a...

New Delhi, March 19 A Delhi court has acquitted two men accused of possessing heroin, stating that the prosecution failed to prove its case due to a lack of independent witnesses.Special Judge (NDPS) Gajender Singh Nagar was hearing a case against Kaisher and Aakil, who were accused in a case...

Amritsar, March 19 – The Punjab Police intensified its ongoing anti-drug and anti-gangster crackdown on Thursday under the 'Gangster Te War' campaign, conducting large-scale Cordon and Search Operations (CASO) in several districts including Barnala, Amritsar, and Hoshiarpur.Senior police...

Washington, March 18: India is part of U.S. efforts to curb the flow of fentanyl precursor chemicals, a top American intelligence official told lawmakers on Wednesday, highlighting cooperation with New Delhi even as officials warned of a widening global threat landscape.Presenting the 2026...

Ahmedabad, March 18 – The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has uncovered an illegal mephedrone manufacturing unit in the Ambedkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, following an investigation that began with a seizure in Ahmedabad, officials said on Wednesday.The case originated on March 1...

Ahmedabad, March 17 The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested two individuals after uncovering a mephedrone manufacturing unit on a farm in Ambedkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Wednesday.The ATS seized 6 kg of mephedrone, 50 kg of liquid mephedrone, and 88 kg of a...

Jammu, March 18 A house belonging to a notorious drug peddler was seized in the Samba district on Wednesday, police said.The house of Masoom Ali, also known as 'Kala', was seized in Rakh Barotian, Vijaypur tehsil, under Section 68-F of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act...

Shimla, March 18 A married couple was arrested with 21.01 grams of 'chitta' (adulterated heroin) from a hotel in Sundernagar in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district, police said on Wednesday.The accused, identified as Arun Bhatti and Parul Guleria, both residents of Mandi who had recently gotten...

Jammu, March 17 A hardened criminal and two drug peddlers were arrested in separate locations in the districts of Jammu and Udhampur on Tuesday, police said.Yudhvir Singh alias Bablu, a resident of Agra Chak village, was arrested along with a weapon from the R S Pura area of Jammu, a police...

Patna, March 17 – Chaos erupted on Tuesday in the Mandiri Kath Pul area, under the jurisdiction of the Buddha Colony Police Station in Patna, when a joint team of the Narcotics Department and Patna Police, conducting a raid against illicit drugs, came under a violent attack by locals and alleged...

Hyderabad, March 17 – The Telangana Police have formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the Moinabad farmhouse drugs case, in which TDP MP Putta Mahesh Kumar, former BRS MLA Pilot Rohith Reddy, and others were arrested for allegedly consuming drugs.The nine-member SIT will work...

Chatra/Medininagar, March 17 Police have seized 4.53 kg of opium and 1,318 bottles of spurious foreign liquor in separate operations in the districts of Chatra and Palamu in Jharkhand, and arrested five people, officials said on Tuesday.In Chatra, a unit for manufacturing spurious liquor was...

Mumbai, March 17 – Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis told the state Assembly on Tuesday that the state government has taken strict measures to control the growing drug networks in major cities across Maharashtra.During the Question Hour, the Chief Minister announced that a 'Dynamic...

Bengaluru, March 17 – During the Question and Answer session in the Karnataka Assembly on Tuesday, the issue of illegal liquor sales, particularly in the border areas of the Raichur district, was raised. Several state MLAs urged the Congress-led state government to take strict action and...

New Delhi, March 17 A Delhi court has convicted a man in a narcotics case involving the recovery of a commercial quantity of heroin, stating that the prosecution has proven the chain of evidence and the recovery beyond a reasonable doubt.Special Judge (NDPS) Harvinder Singh Johal was hearing a...

Mumbai, March 17 In light of the recent crackdown on drug traffickers in the Motibag area of Nagpur, the State Government will implement a 'Zero Tolerance' policy against narcotics. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday that strict action...

New Delhi, March 17 – Union Home Minister Amit Shah extended greetings to the personnel of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on the occasion of the agency's Raising Day on Monday.In a post on X, HM Shah said, “Warm greetings to NCB personnel on their Raising Day. A premier agency dedicated to...

Shimla, March 16 A key interstate drug dealer, primarily involved in trafficking chitta (adulterated heroin), has been arrested in Chandigarh, police said on Monday.The accused, Sanjay alias Ganji, who is from Mauli Jagran Complex in Chandigarh, has been involved in supplying chitta in the...

Srinagar, March 16 Police on Monday seized assets worth crores belonging to an alleged drug peddler in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.Police seized four immovable properties belonging to "notorious drug peddler" Mukhtar Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Rakh e Lajoora, in...