Acting upon a specific tip-off regarding hoarding, selling, and transportation of cough syrup by suspected drug peddlers near Canal Road in Bargarh, a raid was conducted, and two persons were intercepted with the banned substances.
According to the ED, the action was taken for alleged contraventions of Section 4 of FEMA, which pertains to unauthorised transfer or holding of foreign exchange or assets abroad.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of the Delhi Police raided a house in Uttam Nagar and arrested Gaurav Gupta, recovering 77 kg of firecrackers from his residence, the officer said.
Two men involved in the interstate smuggling operation have been arrested, police confirmed.
"The crackdown was carried out by the Crime Branch in several areas, including Dwarka, Rohini, Uttam Nagar, Shastri Nagar, Mukundpur, and Shahdara," said Pankaj Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch).
In a significant crackdown on narco-illegal arms smuggling networks, the Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF), Border Range, Punjab, arrested three drug traffickers near Attari Road here on Wednesday, police said.
Khumbongmayum Abhijit Singh, a suspected PREPAK operative, was apprehended during a late-night raid in the Chumnang area of Kakching district.
The police in Madhya Pradesh seized illicit foreign liquor worth Rs 50 lakh, being ferried inside a tanker in the Mandsaur district of the state.
As part of the month-long ‘Nasha Mukht Abhiyan’, the Anti Narcotics team of Outer North Delhi arrested a woman among two drug suppliers and seized around 400 grams of heroin valued at approximately Rs 2.5 crore in the international market.
In a significant anti-narcotics operation along the India-Bangladesh border, Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in Tripura intercepted a Bangladeshi smuggler and seized 4,000 Yaba tablets valued at Rs 80 lakh.
