According to the CCB, cases have been filed against those arrested today in Hennur and Byapanahalli. The primary culprit and kingpin of Hashish oil in Bengaluru has been missing for two years, according to the CCB.
Further investigation is underway.
Earlier also in the month of July, six people were arrested in Bengaluru, including two foreign nationals, and drugs worth over a crore were allegedly recovered from their hands.
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According to the police, the Central Crime Branch (CCB) in Bengaluru allegedly seized drugs worth Rs. 1 crore from Rammurtynagar and Baglur in Bengaluru.
The Anti-Narcotics wing of the CCB seized cocaine, ecstasy, yaba pills, MDMA, and ganja, continuing the drug war.
While writing this news, the updates arrived that in the Maharajganj area of Uttar Pradesh, security agencies uncovered a big narcotics racket and recovered psychotropic drugs and other items worth Rs 686 crore.
On Wednesday, the district police, district administration, and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) performed a coordinated search at an illegal godown.
According to police, one person has been arrested in connection with the drug seizure.
Following a tip-off, a joint team of police, SDM Nichlaul, and SSB troopers searched Jumaikalan village and seized a huge number of narcotic pills and syrups, injections, printed labels, and wrappers, according to UP Police.
"A tip was received by the in-charge of Thuthibari police station that one Govind Prasad Gupta and his brother was dealing in narcotic substances in Jumaikalan village." Govind, according to the informer, had a large stock of pharmaceuticals stored in a godown. Govind sells narcotics to addicts who buy syrups, tablets, and injections from his home, according to the police.
The police took action after receiving the information, and the station in-charge informed SDM Nichlaul, who arrived in the area on Wednesday with an SSB team. The house was raided, and one person was arrested on the scene, according to the police statement.
Ramesh Gupta, Govind Gupta's brother, was detained. He is 55 years old. Several prohibited substances were seized in large amounts from the premises during the operation. In an attempt to remove their price stamp, several injection ampoules were discovered in two buckets full of water. After the previous price stamps were removed, the accused would paste new price stamps on the injections.
Based on the seizure of the products, a FIR has been filed under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, the IPC, and the Copyright Act. Injections, syrups, 1.24 lakh tablets, 3.13 lakh capsules, and printed price labels were among the drugs seized.
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