Odisha: Police station set afire by mob
A mob comprising local residents set afire a police station in Odisha’s Kandhamal district to register angry protest against the cops’ collusion with drug peddlers in the region.
A mob comprising local residents set afire a police station in Odisha’s Kandhamal district to register angry protest against the cops’ collusion with drug peddlers in the region.
There are about 3000 prisoners in the jails of Himachal Pradesh, out of which more than 40 per cent of them were involved in offences of drug abuse.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday applauded the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and other organisations for their relentless efforts in the fight against drugs on the occasion of International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
Punjab CM, however, said now when he had received the report in three packets of reports from High Court, severest of severe action will be taken against the forces inimical to the state and its youth.
Bhagwant Mann reiterated his state government's commitment to wipe out the scourge of drugs from the state.
Special Commissioner of Police, Crime, Ravindra Singh Yadav said that the team of ANTF of Delhi Police is carrying out a ‘Nasha Mukt Bharat (Drug Free India)’ campaign, by conducting a series of meticulously planned operations across India against the drug traffickers.
The Special Task Force (STF) on Monday recommended the NDPS Competent Authority for the seizure of property in NDPS case under the provision of chapter V-A of NDPS Act
The Narcotics Cell team detained all four ladies on suspicion and found illegal cannabis in their possession during the search.
A total of 2,256 kilograms of cannabis locally called ganja were seized during patrolling by a special squad. The drug peddlers who had procured the contrabands from the Chitrakonda area were smuggling it out to northern States and the National Capital Region, said Sub Divisional Police Officer, Anshuman Dwivedi.
Acting on an intelligence input, the Special Task Force (STF) of the Odisha crime branch raided the Jaleswar market in Balasore district and seized the contraband drugs, the STF said in a statement.