The “chilling disregard” for human rights “displayed” by plainclothes squads constituted to fight narcotic crime ostensibly dominated the zero-hour discussion in Assembly on Thursday. Moving an adjournment motion to debate “police brutality in the name of crime fighting,” Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) legislator N. Shamshudeen held a “shadowy” mufti police unit operating under the … Read more
Image for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: S. Subramanium As many as 217 drug peddlers have been arrested and narcotics worth over ₹7 crore recovered so far this year in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on June 1. As part of its crackdown on drug peddling, the Baramulla police has registered … Read more
An array of posters against drug abuse are displayed at the Government General Hospital at Kozhikode beach. File photo | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Wednesday, Janury 18, 2023, organised a virtual Expert Working Group Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member-countries on the issue of “precursor control”. The … Read more
Rescued from smuggling: Thane Forest Department and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Mumbai unit in a joint operation seized 523 Indian Star Tortoises from a lady passenger at the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Railway station. The Indian star tortoises are trafficked and smuggled as a part of the exotic pet trade and are highly-priced, both in local … Read more