Heroin worth Rs.35 crore seized in Punjab

September 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Nigerian national was arrested in the national capital with over one kg of heroin worth Rs.1 crore (Rs.10 million), Delhi Police said Wednesday. Banzi Babatunde, member of an international drug cartel, was arrested Tuesday from Lodhi Road area on a specific information, a police officer said.

September 21st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Wholesale prices of sugar fell sharply in Punjab after food and civil supplies officials last week raided godowns in Ludhiana and seized hoarded sugar worth Rs.35 crore, traders said. The wholesale prices of the commodity declined to around Rs.3,000 per quintal from Rs.3,200.

September 20th, 2009 LUDHIANA - Over 11,300 quintals of sugar, worth Rs. 3.4 crore, was seized in this Punjab city Sunday as officials targeted hoarders ahead of the festival season.

September 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Four people from Jharkhand, including a medicine bulk trader, were arrested and heroin worth Rs.15 million was seized, Delhi Police said Friday. According to Delhi Police's special cell, the inter-state gang of drug peddlers supplied heroin from Jharkhand to Delhi.

September 6th, 2009 AMRITSAR - Officials of the directorate of revenue intelligence (DRI) seized 12 kg of heroin from a car in a village in the state's Tarn Taran district bordering Pakistan early Sunday. A senior DRI official said a trap was laid in the early hours Sunday, following a tip-off, and a car passing by ordered to stop.

August 31st, 2009 AMRITSAR - The Punjab Police arrested five people here Monday and recovered four kilograms of heroin from their possession, officials said. According to a senior official of Punjab Police, the seized contraband is worth Rs.200 million (Rs.20 crore) in the international market.

August 18th, 2009 GURDASPUR - Border Security Force (BSF) personnel seized 25 kg of heroin near the India-Pakistan border in this district of Punjab Tuesday. "We have seized 25 kilograms of heroin that is worth Rs.125 crore (Rs.

August 18th, 2009 GURDASPUR - Twenty five kilograms of heroin, worth Rs.1.25 billion, was seized by the Border Security Force (BSF) near the India-Pakistan border in this district of Punjab Tuesday. "We have seized 25 kilograms of heroin that is worth Rs.125 crore (Rs.1.25 billion) in the international market, in the wee hours Tuesday," Jagir Singh, Punjab frontier deputy inspector general, told IANS.

August 15th, 2009 FEROZEPUR - Four suspected Pakistani smugglers were arrested Saturday and a night vision device, some arms and ammunition and two kilograms of heroin was seized from them by Indian border guards in this Punjab frontier district, an official said. "We apprehended four smugglers while they were trying to cross the border.

August 14th, 2009 NAWANSHAHR - Punjab Police claimed to have busted a drug racket with the arrest of three Punjab residents and a non-resident Indian (NRI) here Friday. Police also seized 1.8 kg of heroin from their possession.

July 13th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Two men involved in supplying contraband drugs to various states were arrested in Uttar Pradeshs Ghazipur district with heroin worth nearly Rs.2 crore, police said Monday. Inspector D.P.

July 5th, 2009 Drug bust nets heroin stuffed in Build-A-Bear toysNEW YORK — A dozen people have been arrested, and 33 pounds of heroin worth $30 million and stuffed inside Build-A-Bear toys has been seized in a drug bust in the Bronx. The arrests late Friday afternoon were announced Saturday by the New York office of the Drug Enforcement Administration along with city and state police.

June 9th, 2009 MUMBAI - A Punjab police official, who has won the Arjuna Award as wrestler, was arrested with three accomplices for allegedly carrying banned party drugs worth nearly Rs.20 crore (Rs.200 million), an official said Tuesday. The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) carried out an operation yielding 25 kg of methamphetamine, worth around Rs.20 crore in the international market, the official said.

June 9th, 2009 NOIDA - Police in this suburb of the national capital Tuesday arrested three people for allegedly smuggling and selling drugs and seized nearly one kg of heroin from them. Virendra Kumar, Nawab and Naeem Alam were arrested from Labour Chowk near Khoda under the Sector 58 police station while they were about to deliver the drugs to a client, police said, adding one kg of heroin, valued at Rs.2 crores (Rs.20 million) in the international market, was recovered from them.

June 6th, 2009 NOIDA - Four people were arrested with 5 kg of heroin worth Rs.1 crore in this town adjoining the national capital, police said Saturday. Senior Superintendent of Police Ashok Kumar Singh said the four - Sanjay Sharma, Rajeev Sharma alias Raju, Santosh and Munna - were arrested Friday evening.