1,025 cases of smuggled liquor seized
The police made a big haul of smuggled liquor with the seizure of 1,025 cases from a closed-body truck (bearing registration No. HR 38T 4611) which was stopped for checking in the wee hours on Sunday near the Janta Nagar cut on the basis of a tip-off by a police party comprising Inspector Yash Pal Sharma, in-charge, anti-smuggling cell/CIA-3, and ASI Kashmir Singh, along with officials of the Excise Department.
While the driver of the truck and his assistant managed to give the police the slip by taking advantage of the darkness, search of the abandoned truck led to the recovery of 500 cases (each carrying 12 bottles of 750 ml) of McDowell No 1 whisky, 300 cases of McDowell No 1 whisky (each carrying 48 nips of 180 ml), 75 cases (each carrying 12 bottles of 750 ml) of Royal Challenge whisky and 150 cases (each carrying 48 nips of 180 ml) of Royal Challenge whisky.
The police have impounded the truck carrying the illicit liquor and the unidentified accused have been booked under Sections 61, 78(2), 1 and 14 of the Excise Act at the Division No. 6 police station. The police have launched search operations to apprehend the accused who are behind the big racket of liquor smuggling.
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Kochi: Police seize fake currency worth Rs 1.8 crore, 5 arrested
KOCHI: Kochi city police and the anti-terrorism squad (ATS) of the state police seized fake currency to the tune of Rs 1.8 crore from Coimbatore in a joint operation and arrested five people on Thursday. The seizure was made in an operation which began on Wednesday late night and continued through the early hours of Thursday.
According to police, follow-up investigation by Udayamperoor police into the seizure of fake currency amounting to Rs 1.74 lakh on March 27 led the police to the Coimbatore gang.
City police commissioner Nagaraju Chakilam said that the inputs from DIG Anup Kuruvila John who heads the ATS of the state police was instrumental in the operation.
The arrested have been identified as Rasheed from Thrissur, Syed Sultan and Ashraf Ali from Coimbatore and two others who were arrested in the early hours of Thursday. With this, the total number of arrested persons in the Udayamperoor fake currency case has risen to nine. Police have also seized scanners and printers from the accused. The seized fake currencies were in the denomination of Rs 2,000.
Senior officers said that the accused had circulated about 90 currencies of Rs 2,000 denomination at various places and the sleuths tracked and seized each one of those bills. The core members of the racket used to provide two Rs 2,000 fake notes to the secondary links for a single original currency note of the same denomination.
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Jaipur: Police seize 750 remdesivir injections; arrest 6
JAIPUR: The crime branch has arrested six persons for selling remdesivir injections at Rs 15,000 a piece and seized 750 ampoules from them on Wednesday.
The injections are used for Covid patients in emergency situation. The arrested include medical store owner Jayprakash Verma, three agents — Dalveer Singh, Vikas Mittal, Basant Kumar — and two suppliers — Vickram Gujjar and Shankar Mali. All are residents of Harmada and Murlipura in Jaipur.
Following complaints, policemen in the guise of customers visited 48 medical stores looking for two remdesivir injections in the city. “Jayprakash, who runs a samarth medical store asked for Rs 15,000 per injection. When the deal was agreed, one Dalveer Singh brought two injections to the store. After both were arrested, they said one Vikas Mittal gave it to them following which he was apprehended along with one Basant Kumar,” said Digant Anand, DCP (crime) of Jaipur Police Commissionerate.
Following the chain, Jangid told police that Vickram Gujjar and Shankar Mali are providing these injections in the city. “Jangid and Gujjar said they purchased 725 such injections from Gurugram for selling at a high price in Jaipur. They didn’t have any license to sell any drugs and were taking advantage of the health emergency,” said Anand. The seized injections were sent to the forensic to see if they were real or fake.
The suppliers have tied up with the medical stores and they provide them on-demand in several parts of the city. Police are also probing if they have any connection with the hospital staff.
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14.7 kg of smuggled gold seized at Kochi Port
KOCHI: In a major crackdown, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Tuesday seized 14.7 kg of gold from a baggage that arrived at Kochi port. Even though gold seizure from airports is common in Kerala, it was after years of gap that gold was seized from a sea port in state.According to DRI officers, following the seizure, searches were carried out in various locations in Malappuram and Kozhikode districts. The seized gold is valued at Rs 7.2 crore which is the highest one this year.
“A Malappuram native booked and sent the shipping cargo from Dubai. The gold was cleverly concealed inside a refrigerator. There were more than 120 gold biscuits. The person who sent the cargo reached Kerala in a flight a few weeks ago. The ship arrived last week. He was in Kochi to receive the cargo. We have taken him into custody and interrogation is on. We are also conducting searches at his residences and places named by him during the interrogation,” sources said.
DRI suspect that the gang involved in gold smuggling had used the sea route earlier. “With gold being seized at airports frequently, the gang switched to ship cargo route. We suspect that they had carried out smuggling in a similar manner before. It is also being investigated whether any Customs officials is involved.
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Man caught trying to sell fake Remdesivir vials in Bengaluru
City Crime Branch (CCB) officials caught a pharma company executive trying to sell fake Remdesivir vials on the road at Shivajinagar, in Bengaluru, last Saturday.
Based on a tip-off, a team raided an eyecare shop on Hospital Road in Shivajinagar and caught Syed Khaja Kaleelulla, 27, and seized five vials from him. He was trying to sell each vial for ₹14,500 in the black market.
Kaleelulla was working with a pharma company in Wilson Garden and claimed that his colleague, identified as Mujeer, had given him the veils to sell, promising him of commission for the sale.
Kaleelulla was later handed over to the Commercial Street police for further investigation, while the CCB officials seized his mobile phone. They are probing further to ascertain the source of the drugs. Meanwhile, the police have continued to track down Mujeer, who is on the run.
The CCB of Mysuru city police unearthed a racket of fake Remdesivir sale.
A special team of the CCB, set up in the wake of growing complaints of black-marketing of Remdesivir injection amid the resurgence of COVID-19 cases, stumbled upon a large quantity of fake Remdesivir medicine in the house of Girsh, a male nurse working with a private hospital, at Vidyanagar, in Nazarbad police limits, on Monday.
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Rs 8-lakh fake currency seized, 1 held
New Delhi: Delhi Police’s Special Cell has seized fake currency with a face value of Rs 8 lakh from a smuggler at Anand Vihar. Due to the pandemic, the Malda-based cartel was trying to pump in fake notes in the denominations of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500.
The consignment originated in Pakistan and was being routed through Bangladesh. The cartel collected it on the Indo-Bangladesh border and brought them to Delhi via train.
According to deputy commissioner of police (Special Cell) Sanjeev Yadav, the smuggler has been identified as Abdul Rahim, a resident of Malda in West Bengal.
He was arrested from near exit gate of Anand Vihar railway station following a tip-off.
“He is a member of Malda-based fake Indian currency notes (FICN) syndicate and has been smuggling FICN from Bangladesh for a long time. For this purpose he has visited Bangladesh several times. Rahim was about to deliver the notes to one of his contacts based in Delhi when he was arrested,” Yadav said.
In 2016, Rahim started a business of ladies suits and used to visit Bangladesh for to purchase these. He met a fake currency supplier there and joined the trade. The supplier bas been identified as Nasruddin. Rahim was initially being paid Rs 3,000 per trip.
Nasruddin used to collect the FICN from smugglers/suppliers based near Indo-Bangladesh border, who smuggled the fake notes from Bangladesh through cross-border smugglers.
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COVID-19: Four arrested in Maharashtra for selling liquid paracetamol in empty Remdesivir bottles
Mumbai: Maharashtra’s Baramati police busted a gang and arrested four people for selling liquid paracetamol in empty vials of Remedisvir for which they charged around Rs 35000.
The demand for anti-viral drug Remdesivir is high as the number of covoronavirus cases has risen in Maharashtra. The black marketing operations of counterfeit medicines is at full swing while artificial injections are also being sold.
Police arrested four members of a gang from Maharashtra’s Baramati. One of these members worked at Baramati’s COVID Care Center.
This person would pick the empty vials of Remedesvir from there. Later, the vial would be filled with liquid paracetamol and sealed. Then these artificial Remediesvir injections were sold to the needy for Rs 35000.
The police have arrested four members of this gang named Prashant Gharak, Shankar Pise, Dilip Gaikwad and Sandeep Gaikwad.
Lear MoreSpice Jet cabin crew arrested for gold smuggling at Kochi airport
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), in a joint operation with the Customs, arrested a senior cabin crew of Spice Jet allegedly for smuggling gold worth ₹1.07 crore at the Kochi airport on Friday. The arrested was identified as Manhas Abulaise of Palakkad.
It is learnt that the accused was serving as a cabin crew of Spice Jet flight SG 147 that arrived at the Kochi airport from Ras al Khaimah in the UAE in the afternoon. The gold in compound form in five packets was reportedly found concealed in his body. He was arrested following a tip-off. The gold in compound form weighed 2.55 kg and, eventually, 2.20 kg of it was extracted.
The accused reportedly confessed to his involvement in similar smuggling attempts before. The DRI continued to interrogate him and the accused would be produced before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (Economic Offences) on Saturday.
The agency said it suspected that smugglers were luring cabin crew to overcome the pandemic blues in the wake of substantial drop in international flights and passengers. An investigation was on to find out whether more flight crews were involved in such smuggling attempts.
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Fake currency notes worth Rs. 57 thousand seized from Railway employee in Jharsuguda dist
Jharsuguda: The Brajrajnagar Police on Tuseday seized counterfeit currency notes with face value of Rs. 57 thousand from a Railway employee in Jharsuguda district of Odisha. He has been arrested.
As per reports, Police seized 114 pieces of counterfeit currency note of Rs. 500 denominations each from Raman Kumar Rajak. He works at Brajrajnagar Railway Station. He has been forwarded to the Court.
During preliminary investigation Police came to know that the fake currency notes are being smuggled from Nagpur and these are sent to Jharsuguda through Bilaspur, Jharsuguda SP intimated.
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