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1 week, 3 days ago

37 years on, man gets 20-year jail for smuggling hashish

MUMBAI: Thirty-seven years after he was arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle 2,365 Kg hashish out of India, a special NDPS court on Monday sentenced Mulund resident Nitin Khimji Bhanushali to twenty years of imprisonment for possessing, transporting and attempting to export the contraband material. 37 years on, man gets 20-year jail for smuggling hashish In July 1987, Directorate of …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Dawood Ibrahim’s aide Danish Chikna arrested in Mumbai over drug operations

Live Mint

Danish Chikna arrested: India's most-wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim's associate Danish Merchant alias Danish Chikna, was arrested in Mumbai on Friday in connection with drug operations. Merchant used to allegedly manage the drug operations of Dawood Ibrahim in the Dongri area in Mumbai. Both Merchant and Sheikh were arrested after a long investigation that started with the arrest of Mohammed Ashikur …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Charas worth Rs 3 crore seized, five arrested in Delhi

Deccan Chronicle

New Delhi: Delhi Police arrested five people, including three Nepal nationals and recovered 15 kilograms of charas valued at approximately Rs three crore in the international market, an official said on Sunday. Based on the tip-off, a police team raided a hostel, apprehending Prem Thapa, a Nepal national and Mohammad Jameel, a resident of Delhi, he said. Investigations revealed a …

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Vizag police seize 27,000 Kg of ganja, arrest 1,505 in 2024

Deccan Chronicle

The Visakhapatnam Range Police have filed 538 cases and apprehended 1,505 individuals in 2024, seizing over 27,000 kilograms of Ganja and 95 liters of hashish oil. In an interview with Deccan Chronicle, Visakhapatnam Range DIG Gopinath Jatti discussed the extensive strategy used to combat illegal drug trafficking. The police have also integrated technological measures, including CCTV surveillance at checkpoints, which …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

27,000 kg Ganja Seized, 1,505 Arrested by Visakhapatnam Police in NDPS Act

Deccan Chronicle

Visakhapatnam: The Visakhapatnam Range Police have recorded 538 cases and apprehended 1,505 individuals in 2024, seizing over 27,000 kilograms of Ganja and 95 liters of hashish oil in the process. In a conversation with the Deccan Chronicle, Visakhapatnam Range DIG Gopinath Jatti discussed the extensive strategy employed to tackle illegal drug trafficking. The police have also integrated technological measures, including …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Narcotic sniffer dog helps Vizag police seize 30 kg ganja at railway station

India Today

In a significant drug bust, the Vizag City Police seized approximately 30 kg of ganja at the Visakhapatnam Railway Station with the assistance of a narcotic sniffer dog. On Monday, during a coordinated inspection between the city’s dog squad, the city task force, and the Fourth Town Police, the sniffer dog, Caesar, detected the hidden cannabis. Earlier in the day, …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Massive Drug Bust: Telangana Prohibition & Excise Department Incinerates 135.832 kg of Narcotics

The Hindu

Telangana Prohibition and Excise department destroyed a substantial quantity of contraband in various NDPS cases. The department destroyed 79 cases worth 135.832 kilograms of dry ganja, 2.108 kilograms of hashish oil, 1939.5 kilograms of poppy straw, 300.67 grams of charas, 514.16 grams of cocaine, 174.89 grams of MDMA, 25 LSD blots, 14 grams of ecstasy pills, 190 ecstasy pills, and …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Drug and Weapon Smuggling at India-Nepal Border: A Persistent Menace

Op India

Multiple incidents of drug and weapon smuggling along India-Nepal border area have raised concerns among the border security forces of India and Nepal. Security checks at the border post between India and Nepal have been ineffective, leading to the smuggling of drugs and weapons. The lack of modern tools and devices is a major factor in these incidents, as security …

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Three Sentenced to 28 Years for Smuggling Hashish Oil

The Hindu

Three persons have been sentenced to 28 years of rigorous imprisonment for smuggling and selling hashish oil in commercial quantities. The accused, Anthony Rosari Ronaldo, Thomas, and T.N. Gopi, were found guilty of offences under various provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. The court also sentenced to them an additional year of rigorous imprisonment in case …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Tech-armed force to intensify e-surveillance of drug traffickers

Hindustan Times

The state government has approved a budget worth ₹73.5 lakh for purchase of integrated digital voice recorder and computer systems for the Anti-Narcotics Task Force, to strengthen surveillance on drug traffickers. According to the order, an advanced integrated digital voice logger with specification of three primary rate interface line worth ₹10.5 lakh for the surveillance cell of ANTF headquarters in …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Hurricane Debby washed ashore $1 million worth of cocaine onto Florida beaches

NPR

Hurricane Debby washed ashore $1 million worth of cocaine onto Florida beaches toggle caption U.S. Border Patrol of Miami In the aftermath of Hurricane Debby earlier this month, more than 100 pounds of cocaine worth $1 million washed up on a beach in the Florida Keys. The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in Miami reported that the storm blew ashore …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

60kg charas worth Rs 30 crore found off Navsari coast; 4th such incident in Gujarat in a week

Deccan Chronicle

Navsari: Police on Thursday recovered 50 packets containing 60 kg of charas worth Rs 30 crore found lying on the seashore near Onjal village in Gujarat's Navsari district, said an official. After the seizure of charas packets from coastal areas of Surat and Valsad districts earlier this week, the local police formed several teams to scan the coastline of Navsari, …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Brittney Griner discusses ‘mental lapse’ that led to detainment, conditions of Russian prison

New York Times

Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner opened up about her nearly 10-month detainment in Russia and the “mental lapse” that led to her arrest at a Moscow-area airport after authorities found less than one gram of hashish oil in vape canisters in her luggage. GO DEEPER ‘You’re not forgotten’: The letters that sustained Brittney Griner in prison Griner told “20/20” that …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

The West African Sahel is becoming a drug smuggling corridor, UN warns, as seizures skyrocket

Associated Press

NIAMEY, Niger — Drug seizures soared in the West African Sahel region according to figures released Friday in a new U.N. report, indicating the conflict-ridden region is becoming an influential route for drug trafficking. The report said the drug trade provides financial resources to armed groups in the Sahel, where Islamic extremist networks have flourished as the region struggles with …

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9 months ago

Majority of Dutch in favor of legalized cannabis cultivation, sales

NL Times

Six in ten Netherlands residents believe that the production, supply, and sale of cannabis and hashish should be legal. It is currently prohibited to grow cannabis, and growers are also not allowed to supply coffee shops, but the government tolerates the sale. For a while, it was uncertain whether the project would continue at all, because the PVV wanted to …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

A Danish hippie oasis has fought drug sales for years. Now, locals want to tear up the whole street

Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The inhabitants of Copenhagen’s freewheeling Christiania neighborhood plan to dig up the aptly named Pusher Street, in their latest attempt to stop illegal hashish sales which have led to deadly gang turf wars and sometimes violent confrontations with the police. The “Christianites” have made several attempts to close the hashish market in the roughly 100 meter -long …

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9 months, 4 weeks ago

Here are the big stories from Tamil Nadu today

The Hindu

SC grants relief to Ponmudy The Supreme Court has stayed the three-year prison sentence of former Tamil Nadu Minister K. Ponmudy in a disproportionate assets case. 100 kg of hashish worth ₹110 crore seized The Central Intelligence Unit team of the Tiruchi Customs has seized 100 kilograms of hashish worth ₹110 crores and 876 kilograms of ganja worth ₹1.05 crore …

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10 months ago

99 kg of hashish worth ₹108 crore seized near Mandapam during bid to smuggle to Sri Lanka

The Hindu

In a joint operation, sleuths of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Chennai Zone and Indian Coast Guard personnel intercepted a country boat in Gulf of Mannar and seized 99 kg of hashish being smuggled to Sri Lanka in the wee hours of Tuesday, March 5, 2024. After the officials found three persons sailing in the boat with five sacks concealed in …

Sri Lanka Boat Hashish Worth 99 Kg

10 months, 1 week ago

3,300 kg of hashish, meth seized off Gujarat coast in biggest drug bust

India Today

The Narcotics Control Bureau, with assistance from the Indian Navy and the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad, seized 3,300 kg of drugs from a boat manned by suspected Pakistani crew members off the coast of Gujarat. Based on inputs from a surveillance aircraft, an Indian Navy mission-deployed ship which was at sea for two days stopped the suspicious boat as it entered …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Three drug peddlers held, 2 litres hashish oil seized in Hyderabad

New Indian Express

HYDERABAD: The Sanathnagar Police along with the Balanagar SOT team on Tuesday apprehended three peddlers and seized two litres of smuggled hashish oil that they were transporting from Andhra Pradesh to Hyderabad. One of the accused, Balaraju, purchased hashish oil at `35,000 per litre from a supplier, Nagarjuna, in Andhra Pradesh and sold it for `2,500 per 5 ml to …

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1 year ago

Bihar: 4 cops suspended after Nepali smuggler escapes from police custody

Hindustan Times

East Champaran superintendent of police Kantesh Kumar Mishra on Monday suspended four police personnel, including two sub inspectors, after one of two Nepalis arrested with hashish escaped from police custody in the Bihar district. The development came barely a few hours after two smugglers, Sudarshan Sah and Lalbabu Thakur of Parsa district of Nepal, were arrested with 7.46 kg of …

Nepal Smuggler Escapes

1 year ago

3 Peddlers of Hash Oil, Charas, 4 Users Nabbed

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: West zone task force nabbed three peddlers and four consumers including a woman and seized 310 ml of hashish oil and 70 grams of charas from them at Filmnagar late on Saturday. Police found that Mohd Qaseem would travel to the agency area, get the contraband and handover it to Muzaffar Ali and Abdul Aziz, who then packed it …

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1 year, 4 months ago

1 killed, 4 wounded in shooting in Copenhagen's Christiania neighborhood, police in Denmark say

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A shooting Saturday in a …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Two Dutch caught with drugs in Spain; Immediately sentenced to prison, fine

NL Times

Two Dutch people were arrested in Spain on Thursday with hashish, weed, and ecstasy pills in the car. They were accused of “a crime against public health” by drug trafficking and sentenced the next day to a year in prison and a fine, NOS reports. They were driving on the N-620 in northern Spain on Thursday evening when the police …

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37 years on, man gets 20-year jail for smuggling hashish

Dawood Ibrahim’s aide Danish Chikna arrested in Mumbai over drug operations

Charas worth Rs 3 crore seized, five arrested in Delhi

Vizag police seize 27,000 Kg of ganja, arrest 1,505 in 2024

27,000 kg Ganja Seized, 1,505 Arrested by Visakhapatnam Police in NDPS Act

Narcotic sniffer dog helps Vizag police seize 30 kg ganja at railway station

Massive Drug Bust: Telangana Prohibition & Excise Department Incinerates 135.832 kg of Narcotics

Drug and Weapon Smuggling at India-Nepal Border: A Persistent Menace

Three Sentenced to 28 Years for Smuggling Hashish Oil

Tech-armed force to intensify e-surveillance of drug traffickers

Hurricane Debby washed ashore $1 million worth of cocaine onto Florida beaches

60kg charas worth Rs 30 crore found off Navsari coast; 4th such incident in Gujarat in a week

Brittney Griner discusses ‘mental lapse’ that led to detainment, conditions of Russian prison

The West African Sahel is becoming a drug smuggling corridor, UN warns, as seizures skyrocket

Majority of Dutch in favor of legalized cannabis cultivation, sales

A Danish hippie oasis has fought drug sales for years. Now, locals want to tear up the whole street

Here are the big stories from Tamil Nadu today

99 kg of hashish worth ₹108 crore seized near Mandapam during bid to smuggle to Sri Lanka

3,300 kg of hashish, meth seized off Gujarat coast in biggest drug bust

Three drug peddlers held, 2 litres hashish oil seized in Hyderabad

Bihar: 4 cops suspended after Nepali smuggler escapes from police custody

3 Peddlers of Hash Oil, Charas, 4 Users Nabbed

1 killed, 4 wounded in shooting in Copenhagen's Christiania neighborhood, police in Denmark say

Two Dutch caught with drugs in Spain; Immediately sentenced to prison, fine