Acting on a tip-off, a special police squad successfully intercepted the traffickers, seizing a substantial haul of psychotropic substances. Along with the arrest, the vehicles used in the drug trade were also confiscated.
Four youths of Murshidabad have been arrested by Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) and 57.471 kilograms of ganja have been seized from their possession.
As part of a crackdown on narcotic trade, a team of the Delhi Police busted a drug syndicate involved in supplying illegal drugs with the arrest of four drug peddlers, including a woman, from Rohini in North West Delhi, it said on Sunday.
Jitendra Singh was speaking after holding a public durbar in Kathua where the authorities have in the recent past arrested several persons engaged in illegal quarrying and confiscated their trucks.
Coke Oven police station, acting on a specific tip-off, nabbed two drug peddlers and seized 500 grams of brown sugar from their possession near a bus stand in Durgapur late last night.
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.
