CM Manik Saha highlighted his government's zero tolerance policy towards drug trafficking.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced that India and Chile have decided to take steps to create defence industrial manufacturing and supply chains as per each other's needs and increase cooperation between their agencies to face challenges like organised crime, drug trafficking and terrorism.
A spokesperson of the Police Department said the detainees, who are from Nurpur, Sirmaur, Chamba, Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (Solan district) and Kangra, have repeatedly been found involved in drug trafficking.
The Delhi Police have apprehended five Nepali nationals for supplying drugs, recovering approximately 4 kg of psychotropic substances, Rs 42,000 in cash, and nine mobile phones in South East Delhi, officials said on Saturday.
Police have arrested a youth for drug trafficking and seized 50 tablets of Buprenorphine and 50 injections of Pheniramine maleate(generally used as pain relievers) from his possession.
In recent years, the dark web has become a hub for illegal activities such as drug trafficking, cybercrime, and human trafficking. And now, reports suggest that Delhi is emerging as a hotspot for dark web syndicates.
The Centre may hand over the probe into the case to the NIA as the initial probe has revealed that an international drug syndicate with alleged links with Pakistan is involved in drug trafficking.
With an aim to disrupt, degrade and dismantle drug networks with international linkages through the rapid exchange of criminal intelligence on drug trafficking and coordinated law enforcement actions across international jurisdictions through INTERPOL.
DSP Lakhvir Singh was arrested for accepting the bribe from a drug supplier for not naming him in the FIR registered in a case of drug trafficking.
Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur launched an initiative of the department of State Taxes and Excise and HP Nasha Niwaran Board to curb drug trafficking, ‘Nasha Nahin, Zindagi Chunne’.
