DRI seizes heroin worth Rs 879 crore in Maharashtra's Raigad, 1 held
India | Jul 04, 2021, 12:00 PM ISTThe contraband, seized on Thursday, is one of the major narcotic seizures in the recent times, they said.
The contraband, seized on Thursday, is one of the major narcotic seizures in the recent times, they said.
"The incident took place on the intervening night of June 2-3 when troops sensed suspicious movement at the border. A BSF sentry opened fire, forcing the smugglers to run," BSF spokesperson said
Border Security Troops seized 60 packets of contrabands that are suspected to be Heroin from the Gurdaspur Sector in Punjab on Sunday. The BSF troops deployed along the River Ravi bank observed some suspicious item floating (a bunch of water Hyacinth) in River Ravi from Pakistan to India side.
As part of a special anti-narcotics drive, the Haryana Police arrested two people with 500 gm of heroin worth around Rs 1 crore in Sirsa district, police said
Heroin worth over Rs 1,000 crore has been destroyed by the customs department here, an official statement issued on Friday said. A high level disposal committee has carried out destruction of 207.109 kgs of heroin on January 24 at a centralised bio-medical waste facility, it said.
With this, the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Mumbai police has claimed to have unearthed an alleged nexus between police informers and drug peddlers, an official said
A Nigerian national was arrested for allegedly supplying drugs in the national capital, police said on Saturday. Thirty grams of heroin worth Rs 5 lakh was recovered from him, they said.
It was revealed that the Airport Security Force (ASF) had reportedly recovered around 25 ks of drugs from their baggage, concealed into women's clothing, which was detected later during the scanning process.
The trio were identified as Jai Chand Saxena (31) a resident of Bareilly, Sonu Goswami (26) and Shyam (25) both residents of Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
Delhi police special cell seized over 10 kg of heroin from Rohini in Delhi on Wednesday. Three accused arrested possessing the drugs which were being peddled from Manipur through Naxal-affected areas of Jharkhand.
The BSF recovered 3kg heroin near Shameke border outpost at 7 am, while patrolling the Sutlej river area in a boat.
The Customs Department has seized large quantity of suspected heroin concealed inside a truck carrying salt which crossed over to Indian territory from Pakistan through the Integrated Check Post at the Attari-Wagah International Border, officials said on Sunday.
Terming the recovery as a "major success", a spokesman said the BSF carried out a special search operation on a specific information and found a plastic can in a branch of Phalku Nalla.
In a major operation on the high seas, the Indian Coast Guard on early Tuesday seized a Pakistani fishing vessel carrying 200 kg heroin, valued at a whopping Rs 600 crore in the international market, an official said.
Birbal Chaudhery (25) was arrested from the Sonauli bus stand following his arrival from Nepal with the contraband in possession.
Four men were arrested and 50 kg of heroin worth more than Rs 200 crore in the international market were seized, police said Monday.
The two accused said they used to bring consignments in their stomach by swallowing heroin-filled capsules and sometimes carried them in secret cavities of their bags by air, a senior officer said.
The accused - Teeka Ram (33) and Rajpal (47) - used to procure the contraband from Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district and supply it to their clients in Delhi and the national capital region, they said.
The four arrested accused include a national of Nigeria and two of Afghanistan, DCP (Special Cell) PS Kushwah said.
"The BSF troopers recovered two packets of heroin from a group of Indian smugglers near the Indo-Bangladesh border on Sunday morning," the NCB said.
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