Heroin worth Rs.35 crore seized in PunjabSeptember 25th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Police Friday seized 7.8 kilograms of heroin, worth Rs.35 crore, from two places in Punjab and arrested three people, said the officials. In the first seizure, police of the border district of Gurdaspur, around 250 km from here, seized five kg of heroin and arrested two smugglers.
Hoarded sugar worth Rs.3.4 crore seized in PunjabSeptember 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.
Four of drug gang held, heroin worth Rs.15 mn seizedSeptember 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.
Punjab police seize four kilograms of heroinSeptember 1st, 2009 AMRITSAR - Sleuths of Special Operation Cell (SOC) of Punjab have seized on Monday four kilograms of heroin estimated to be worth around rupees 200 million rupees in the international market and also arrested five men. This was disclosed by P K Rai, Senior Superintendent of Police, Special Operation Cell, (SOC), Punjab.
Heroin worth Rs.200 mn seized in PunjabAugust 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.
Heroin worth Rs.1.25 bn seized at India-Pakistan borderAugust 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.
25 kg of heroin seized at India-Pakistan borderAugust 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.
Four Pakistani smugglers arrested near Punjab borderAugust 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.
Drug racket busted in Punjab, four arrestedAugust 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.
$30 million worth of heroin stuffed in Build-A-Bear toys is found during NYC drug bustJuly 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.
Three arrested in Noida with one kg of heroinJune 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.
Heroin, fake currency seized in Amritsar, three nabbedMarch 30th, 2009 AMRITSAR - Police seized four kilograms of heroin and fake currency worth rupees one million from three suspects in Amritsar. The three suspects were from neighbouring Tarn Taran district, said P K Rai, Senior Superintendent of Police, Special Narcotic Cell of Punjab police.
BSF foils heroin smuggling bid, one killed in PunjabMarch 4th, 2009 AMRITSAR - The Border Security Force (BSF) early Wednesday foiled an attempt by Pakistani intruders to smuggle heroin into India, killing one of them in a gunbattle in the Amritsar sector of the international border, an official said. While two smugglers managed to escape, one was killed in the gunbattle at Mahwa post near Attari and was being identified, BSF's Punjab Frontier Deputy Inspector General Jagir Singh told IANS.
BSF recovers five kg heroin near India-Pakistan borderFebruary 2nd, 2009 AMRITSAR - In yet another drug haul in the border areas of Punjab, the Border Security Force (BSF) Tuesday recovered five kg of heroin in the Khem Karan sector of the India-Pakistan international border. BSF officials said that the drugs consignment was concealed in packets and concealed under loose soil under a big tree.
14 kg heroin seized at Attari railway stationJanuary 26th, 2009 AMRITSAR - Nearly 14 kg of heroin worth Rs.140 million was seized from three people, including two women, at the Attari railway station Tuesday, a customs official said. The three people, from Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, have been arrested.