narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances (ndps) act

Bengaluru, March 31 – A 27-year-old woman, identified as Rithika Rai, was arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle SIM cards and narcotics into the Central Prison in Bengaluru, police said on Tuesday.According to officials, the incident occurred on March 26 at around 4 PM in the General...

Shimla, March 24 A total of 66 people died due to drug overdose in Himachal Pradesh from 2023 to January 31, 2026, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu informed the Assembly in a written reply on Tuesday.Responding to the questions of BJP MLAs Jeet Ram Katwal and Prakash Rana, the chief...

Raipur/Durg, Chhattisgarh, March 7: In a swift move amid rising political controversy, the BJP has suspended its leader Vinay Tamrakar from the party.The action follows allegations of illegal opium (poppy) cultivation on his farmland in the Durg district.According to party sources, the...

Chandigarh, March 2 Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said on Monday that the ongoing anti-drug campaign has fundamentally altered the fight against narcotics by dismantling entrenched networks and ensuring strict enforcement as "Yudh Nashian Virudh" completes one year.In a statement, Mann...

Shimla, March 1 A total of 145 locations were searched during the anti-drug operation conducted by the Himachal Pradesh Police on Sunday, an official said.During the search, 406 grams of charas, 19.236 grams of chitta (heroin), 124 grams of poppy husk (chura-post), and 465,100 millilitres of...

Visakhapatnam, February 25 The Andhra Pradesh Police destroyed over 52 tonnes of seized marijuana and nearly 142 liters of hashish oil in the Visakhapatnam Range as part of intensified anti-narcotics operations, a police official said.The narcotic substances were incinerated at the Coastal...

Chennai, February 25 – The Tamil Nadu unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) intensified its criticism of the ruling DMK government on Tuesday, alleging that the state has experienced a significant increase in drug trafficking over the past four and a half years and calling for the immediate...

Mumbai, February 24 Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Tuesday that while drug crimes have been brought under the stringent MCOCA, courier services involved in the illegal delivery of narcotics will also be treated as co-accused.Fadnavis said that social media platforms like...

Kolkata, February 22 Judicial officers appointed to adjudicate claims and objections arising from the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound West Bengal will be required to accept only the 13 identity documents specified by the Election Commission of India...

New Delhi, February 17 The Delhi Police has arrested the kingpin of an inter-state drug trafficking syndicate from Odisha, an officer said on Tuesday.The accused, Manoj Khillo, a resident of Odisha, was declared a proclaimed offender in a narcotics-related case registered at the Crime Branch...

Jaipur, February 16 – In a significant breakthrough during a special anti-narcotics operation in the Barmer district of Rajasthan, police dismantled an illegal MD drug manufacturing unit and seized a large quantity of chemicals and equipment allegedly intended for the production of synthetic...

Chandigarh, February 9 The Punjab Police has busted a cross-border arms and narcotics smuggling operation with the arrest of five individuals in Amritsar, said the state's Director General of Police, Gaurav Yadav, on Monday.The police recovered six pistols along with 10 cartridges, 115 grams...