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Itanagar, March 10 Police seized 26 grams of heroin, valued at approximately Rs 1.37 lakh, from the residence of a man during a raid in Nongtow Khamti village in the Namsai district of Arunachal Pradesh, a senior official said on Tuesday.Acting on credible information about the illegal sale...

Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), March 3 Seven people, including five women, were arrested after a sex racket operating illegally at an ice cream factory in East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand was uncovered, police said.The majority of the arrested women were from neighboring states, a police officer...

Drugs worth ₹6 crore seized in Khanapara, Four arrestedDrugs worth nearly ₹6 crore were seized today in Khanapara, Guwahati. The contraband was being transported hidden inside a compartment of a truck, according to police.The operation was carried out jointly by the Basistha Police and the...

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...

Patna, February 28 – In a significant breakthrough during the ongoing anti-liquor campaign, the Khajekalan Police Station in Patna recovered approximately 480 litres of foreign liquor during a raid in the Ghasiyari Gali area.The police acted on specific information that a large consignment of...

Koraput (Odisha), February 28 The Odisha Police formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Saturday to investigate the illegal hashish oil trade racket operating from an island in the Koraput district, from where narcotic drugs worth Rs 225 crore were seized two days ago, an officer said on...

Andheri, February 28 – In a major crackdown on human trafficking, the Mumbai Police have busted an international sex racket operating out of a hotel in Andheri East.According to police, two Ugandan women, who were lured to India on the pretext of employment, were allegedly forced into...

Ranchi, February 27 A man and his son were arrested with 48 kg of marijuana, worth approximately Rs 40 lakh, in the Gumla district of Jharkhand, police said on Friday.Police arrested both after receiving information that they had stored marijuana at their home in Badaik Colony, within the...

Jalna, February 27 Police have seized 21 small and large swords from a cloth shop in Jalna city, Maharashtra, and arrested its owner, an official said on Friday.Based on a tip-off, a police team raided the premises in the Mahavir Chowk area around midnight and found the weapons, the official...

Kolkata, February 25 – Two people, including a father and his son, have been arrested in connection with the recent shootout in Kolkata’s Tiljala area, police said on Wednesday.The accused – Mohammad Salman and his father Mohammad Anwar – were arrested in the early hours of Wednesday while...

Thane, February 25 The Thane police have uncovered a fraudulent call centre that allegedly cheated foreign nationals, particularly US citizens, under the pretense of selling software, an official said on Wednesday.Five individuals, including the call centre owner, were detained after a raid at...

Bengaluru, February 24 – The Cyber Crime Police Station, Central Division, Bengaluru, attached to the Karnataka State Cyber Command, conducted a raid in the city and arrested two individuals on charges of operating a fake call centre and luring people by claiming they would earn profits through...

Palghar, February 24 Five individuals have been arrested for allegedly operating a fake call center from an apartment in Palghar district, Maharashtra, and defrauding US nationals by posing as tech support representatives, police said on Tuesday.The local crime branch raided an apartment in...

Pune, February 23 A woman died and the manager of a spa center in the Viman Nagar area of Pune was injured after allegedly jumping out of a window of the facility when police conducted a raid on suspicion of a prostitution racket on Monday, an official said."Police found several girls and...

Thane, February 23 Maharashtra Health Minister Prakash Abitkar has assured a thorough investigation into the egg-donation racket that exploited poor women in the Thane district and warned of strict action against the guilty.The police recently busted the racket, in which victims were offered...

Kolkata, February 22 – A large number of crude bombs were recovered from a hotel owned by a Trinamool Congress leader in the Bolpur area of West Bengal’s Birbhum district, police said on Sunday.Officers from two police stations conducted an overnight raid at the hotel in Bolpur, owned by...

Patna, February 21 – A day after meeting Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Rajesh Ranjan, popularly known as Pappu Yadav, the Lok Sabha MP from Purnea, issued a detailed statement describing his ordeal after alleged arrest and sought the Speaker’s intervention.In the statement, Pappu Yadav said that...

Bhubaneswar, February 18 Five individuals were apprehended following the busting of an online betting racket in Rourkela town, Odisha, police said on Wednesday.Acting on a tip-off, teams from Plant Side, Uditnagar, Bondamunda, and Raghunathpalli police stations conducted simultaneous raids on...

New Delhi, February 17 The Delhi Police have arrested three individuals who stole gold, silver ornaments, and over Rs 1 lakh in cash from a passenger on a crowded DTC bus here, an official said on Tuesday.The theft was reported on February 5. The complainant, Vikas Kumar, said that while...

Kolkata, February 16 Two civic volunteers, who assist the police in West Bengal in maintaining law and order and traffic movement, were injured in an attack by suspected drug traffickers in Malda district on Monday, a senior officer said.The incident occurred when a police team, consisting of...