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Ahmedabad, March 9 Liquor worth more than Rs 42 crore was seized from checkposts along Gujarat's borders with Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan in the past two years, the state government informed the assembly on Monday.Gujarat is a dry state where prohibition is in effect.Responding to a...

Bareilly, March 8 A suspected drug trafficker was apprehended with 2.645 kg of heroin worth approximately Rs 5.30 crore on him here on Sunday, police said.Superintendent of Police (City) Manush Pareek said Shobhit Gupta, a native of Saijni village in the Badaun district, was arrested by a team...

Cachar (Assam), March 8: In a significant success against drug trafficking, the Assam Rifles, in a joint operation with the state Police, apprehended five drug peddlers and recovered heroin worth nearly Rs 3.5 crore from their possession in Cachar district, officials said on Sunday.A Defence...

Palghar, March 8 The Excise Department has seized Indian-made foreign liquor worth over Rs 52 lakh that was being smuggled into Maharashtra from the Union Territory of Daman, a senior official said on Sunday.Superintendent of State Excise (Palghar) Ganesh Bargaje said the alcohol, including...

March 7, New Delhi – In a major anti-drug operation, the Assam Rifles, in collaboration with the Cachar Police, apprehended five individuals and seized approximately ₹3.5 crore worth of heroin in Cachar.The operation was based on specific intelligence regarding the trafficking of narcotics in...

New Delhi, March 8: In a significant crackdown on drug trafficking through the rail network, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) of Central Railway has seized 43 kilograms of narcotics worth Rs 12.82 lakh in two separate operations conducted in Nagpur and Kalaburagi earlier this month. Railway...

Kochi, March 7 The Customs (Preventive) Commissionerate has arrested five individuals from West Bengal and Assam in connection with the smuggling of high-end used cars from Bhutan, officials said on Saturday.In a statement, Customs said the arrested individuals were Biswadip Das (35) of...

Kochi, March 7 The Customs (Preventive) Commissionerate has arrested five individuals from West Bengal and Assam in connection with the smuggling of high-end used cars from Bhutan, officials said on Saturday.In a statement, Customs said the arrested individuals were Biswadip Das (35) of...

Mandapam (Tamil Nadu), March 5 – The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) station in Mandapam successfully conducted a rapid anti-smuggling operation in the coastal waters off Vedalai, seizing approximately 280 kg of illegally harvested sea cucumbers, according to an official.The operation, which took...

London, March 4 In a major first, the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford has returned a 16th-century bronze idol to India for its journey back to the temple in Tamil Nadu where it belongs.The sacred icon of Saint Thirumankai Alvar was acquired by the museum in a Sotheby’s auction in...

New Delhi, March 3 Seven individuals were convicted in a 2015 case of smuggling fake Indian currency by a special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Visakhapatnam and sentenced to imprisonment ranging from seven to ten years, an official statement issued here on Tuesday said...

Kozhikode (Kerala), March 3 The DRI (Directorate of Revenue Intelligence) said on Tuesday that it has seized approximately ₹70 crore worth of drugs in Kerala so far this financial year, and has made 21 arrests.In the latest seizure, nearly 2 kg of crystal methamphetamine was recovered from a...

Patna, March 2 – In a major crackdown ahead of Holi, police in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, seized a large quantity of illegal foreign liquor and arrested a truck driver during a special operation in the Gaighat police station area on Monday.According to officials, acting on specific intelligence...

Malkangiri (Odisha), March 2 Officers from the Odisha forest department rescued 210 live Indian flap-shell turtles on Monday, allegedly being smuggled in a vehicle in the Malkangiri district, officials said.During a search operation, forest personnel intercepted an SUV inside a forest near...

New Delhi, March 2 Customs officers at Indira Gandhi International Airport have foiled two separate attempts to smuggle gold, seizing a total of over 3.17 kilograms of gold worth approximately ₹4.35 crore and arresting three foreign nationals, officials said on Monday.In the first instance...

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...

Bilaspur (HP), February 27 A group of people involved in smuggling khair (a type of wood) attempted to attack a team from the forest department after they were intercepted in the Bilaspur district, officials said on Friday.The incident took place on Thursday night when three members of the...

Patna, February 27 Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a meeting with top Bihar government officials in Purnea district on Friday to review internal security in the strategically located Seemanchal region, before concluding his three-day state tour.Those present at the meeting included Union...

Koraput, February 26 Hashish oil worth approximately Rs 225 crore was seized from a forest in the Koraput district of Odisha on Thursday, police said.Acting on a tip-off, a team led by SP Rohit Verma busted a manufacturing unit inside the Jholaput forest near the state's border with Andhra...

Imphal, February 24 Security forces arrested two individuals in the Tengnoupal district of Manipur for allegedly smuggling 24 wild mountain goats from Myanmar, police said on Tuesday.Acting on a tip-off, a team of security forces intercepted a four-wheeler in the town of Tengnoupal and...