Chandigarh Police bust like YouTube video-earn money racket
Gang offering work-from-home jobs duped 181 Chandigarh residents of over Rs 3.97 crore ub seven months.
Gang offering work-from-home jobs duped 181 Chandigarh residents of over Rs 3.97 crore ub seven months.
Rs 7.35 crore counterfeit drugs of top brands seized
The gang behind the fraud that used to allure youths with the offer of government jobs and duped them of substantial sums, had spread its network in 17 states.
The bigger challenge now is to stop the consumption of these fake medicines by the cancer patients as huge consignments of such medicines valued in crores have already reached the markets.
A state financial official said that from Sunday afternoon till late night, the sleuths of the DEO conducted a marathon raid and search operations at the residence of a Kolkata- based businessman, Amarnath Shroff at Harish Mukherjee Road in south Kolkata.
The STF had made a seizure of around 810 kilograms of cannabis (locally called ganja) on 7 August 2021. Two accused persons arrested then in this connection had spilled the beans and revealed that it was Singh who was operation the drug racket from UP, said Deputy Inspector General of police, STF, Mr. Jai Narayan Pankaj.
Acting on a tipoff, the suspected drug peddler, Gagan Behera was arrested and cannabis locally called ganja weighing 116 kilograms stashed in a luxury car was seized.
The unlawfully procured arms including eight country-made revolvers and ammunition were seized from his possession.
The accused were booked under relevant IPC sections related to prostitution, besides under the PITA (Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act)
Alwar SP Tejaswani Gautam said that police acted on a tip off and caught the accused red-handed as they carried a chat on their phone with the informer.
