Drug Smuggling

A man allegedly involved in smuggling 530 kg of heroin worth around Rs 2,500 crore into the country via sea route from Pakistan on different occasions was arrested by the Gujarat ATS at the Delhi airport on Thursday, officials said.

Two Zambian men have been arrested by Customs officials at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in Delhi for allegedly trying to smuggle into the country heroin worth Rs 7.36 crore, according to an official statement issued today.

Officials on Monday intercepted a massive consignment of drugs that smuggled into Mumbai from Iran by sea.

The DRI has seized around 300 kg of heroin worth Rs 879 crore allegedly smuggled from Afghanistan and arrested one person in this connection at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) in neighbouring Raigad district, officials said on Sunday.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said that the state government will adopt a zero tolerance policy towards smuggling of cattle and drugs.

Two drug smugglers from Punjab, who were on the run after allegedly killing two policemen in Ludhiana, were gunned down by West Bengal police today during a shootout at a residential neighbourhood on Kolkata outskirts.

Authorities in Panama on Friday intercepted an unlikely smuggler, a fluffy white cat, bearing an assortment of drugs in a pouch tied to its body as it tried to enter a prison.

An interstate gang of drug smugglers and suppliers have been busted with the arrest of its kingpin and a mother-son duo here, the police said today.

Eight Pakistani nationals on board a boat were arrested with heroin worth around Rs 150 crore off the Gujarat coast in the Arabian Sea early on Thursday morning, the state Anti-Terror Squad said.

The Army said on Wednesday that it foiled an attempt to smuggle narcotics into J&K's Tangdhar sector from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and seized drugs worth around Rs 50 crore.

The NIA on Monday arrested four drug traffickers in Kashmir for their alleged involvement in smuggling heroin in huge quantities from Pakistan and supplying it in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country, an official said.

Two men have been arrested for allegedly being members of a module that used drones to smuggle narcotics and weapons into India through Pakistan-based smugglers with links to pro-Khalistan operatives, the Punjab police said in a statement on Tuesday.

Seven persons were arrested for allegedly smuggling 117 kg of hashish, worth Rs 6 crore in the international market, from Nepal, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) said on Thursday.

The Punjab police has arrested two members of a Pakistan-backed international drug-cum-arms smuggling cartel involving a former BSF constable.

Over five kg of heroin worth Rs 25 crore was recovered from Karbi Anglong district in Assam and one person held in this connection, DGP Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta said on Monday.

A man allegedly involved in smuggling 530 kg of heroin worth around Rs 2,500 crore into the country via sea route from Pakistan on different occasions was arrested by the Gujarat ATS at the Delhi airport on Thursday, officials said.

Two Zambian men have been arrested by Customs officials at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in Delhi for allegedly trying to smuggle into the country heroin worth Rs 7.36 crore, according to an official statement issued today.

Officials on Monday intercepted a massive consignment of drugs that smuggled into Mumbai from Iran by sea.

The DRI has seized around 300 kg of heroin worth Rs 879 crore allegedly smuggled from Afghanistan and arrested one person in this connection at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) in neighbouring Raigad district, officials said on Sunday.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said that the state government will adopt a zero tolerance policy towards smuggling of cattle and drugs.

Two drug smugglers from Punjab, who were on the run after allegedly killing two policemen in Ludhiana, were gunned down by West Bengal police today during a shootout at a residential neighbourhood on Kolkata outskirts.

Authorities in Panama on Friday intercepted an unlikely smuggler, a fluffy white cat, bearing an assortment of drugs in a pouch tied to its body as it tried to enter a prison.

An interstate gang of drug smugglers and suppliers have been busted with the arrest of its kingpin and a mother-son duo here, the police said today.

Eight Pakistani nationals on board a boat were arrested with heroin worth around Rs 150 crore off the Gujarat coast in the Arabian Sea early on Thursday morning, the state Anti-Terror Squad said.

The Army said on Wednesday that it foiled an attempt to smuggle narcotics into J&K's Tangdhar sector from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and seized drugs worth around Rs 50 crore.

The NIA on Monday arrested four drug traffickers in Kashmir for their alleged involvement in smuggling heroin in huge quantities from Pakistan and supplying it in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country, an official said.

Two men have been arrested for allegedly being members of a module that used drones to smuggle narcotics and weapons into India through Pakistan-based smugglers with links to pro-Khalistan operatives, the Punjab police said in a statement on Tuesday.

Seven persons were arrested for allegedly smuggling 117 kg of hashish, worth Rs 6 crore in the international market, from Nepal, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) said on Thursday.

The Punjab police has arrested two members of a Pakistan-backed international drug-cum-arms smuggling cartel involving a former BSF constable.

Over five kg of heroin worth Rs 25 crore was recovered from Karbi Anglong district in Assam and one person held in this connection, DGP Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta said on Monday.