Liquor haul at Bihar border
STATE DIGEST: Protest against changes in labour laws and farm bill; zero tolerance to illegal mining in Bokaro; Bihar residents arrested for smuggling liquor.
Harihurganj police in Palamau recovered and seized a huge consignment of liquour near the Bihar border on Thursday. The consignment had thousands of bottles of alcohol which was being smuggled to Bihar.
Police have stepped up border checks before the Bihar Assembly elections. SDPO Shambhu Kumar Singh said as the election gets nearer, smuggling of illicit wine will be rampant which they are determined to foil.
Singh said along with the illicit wine police have recovered a huge consignment of government rice meant for the public distribution through PDS shops.
The wine and government rice were clandestinely stocked in a godown owned by Umesh Sao, a mukhiya and PDS shop owner.
Singh said Sao who is absconding will face criminal charges under essential commodities act. Sao will also be charged for stocking illicit wine with the purpose of inter state smuggling.
https://www.telegraphindia.com/jharkhand/liquor-haul-at-bihar-border/cid/1793007
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In last 4.5 years, over 500 cases in Delhi for producing, selling fake products.
New Delhi: In the last four and a half years, the Delhi Police have registered over 500 cases against various individuals for selling fake products starting from eatables and water to costly watches, medicines and medical equipment being sold in the Capital. Police said they had arrested more than 530 people since 2016 in these cases.
According to the Delhi Police’s data on Copyright Act cases, accessed by Millennium Post, 47 cases have been registered this year till August in relation to selling fake products. The total number of such cases last year was 148; over 80 in 2018; around 115 in 2017 and 159 in 2016.
An official from one of the district investigation units (DIU) said that the main reason behind the fake products is the pure commercial benefit. “For the production of a genuine product, it requires a set of rules and regulations, you have to take various kinds of permission and also after the production it is being sold with tax included. But for production of fake products no such things required. The fake products are prepared and designed to make it look like the original and consumers usually cannot distinguish between the two,” the official said.
After registering the cases, a detailed investigation was done and in many cases, raids were conducted which led to the arrest of over 530 people (2016-145, 2017-113, 2018-over 45, 2019-175, 2020- 59).
Lear MoreFeds proudly announce seizure of ‘counterfeit Apple AirPods’ that are actually OnePlus Buds.
It can be hard to tell a difference between AirPods and the many earbuds that resemble them, but checking the box is always a good start. US Customs and Border Protection tonight tweeted that its officers had “recently seized 2,000 counterfeit Apple AirPods from Hong Kong, valued at $398K had they been genuine.” There’s also this press release on the situation, which praises CBP officers for “protecting the American public from various dangers on a daily basis” and says that “the interception of these counterfeit earbuds is a direct reflection of the vigilance and commitment to mission success by our CBP officers daily.”
The only problem is, based on the agency’s own photos, the seized products appear to be legitimate OnePlus Buds — transported in a box that plainly says as much. But CBP proudly tweeted “THAT’S NOT AN APPLE,” as if its people had astutely detected a forged piece of 18th-century art. It’s not clear if all of the 2,000 blocked units were OnePlus Buds, though the CBP images are unmistakable.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/13/21435637/us-cbp-counterfeit-airpods-oneplus-buds-mixup
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Saudi Arabia seizes 40m packages of illegal cosmetic products
Dubai: Saudi drug enforcement officers seized more than 40 million packages of illegal cosmetic products during inspection visits carried out throughout the Kingdom in the first half of this year, figures have revealed, local media reported.
The Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) conducted 7,284 checks on cosmetic facilities over the six-month period that uncovered 1,105 breaches of rules and regulations surrounding the items.
SFDA inspectors closed 95 facilities, busted another 83 that had been operating without a permit, shut down three production lines, and withdrew 1,600 samples, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
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Gold Paste, iPhones Worth Over ₹ 16 Lakh Seized In Delhi, 2 Arrested: Police
New Delhi: Customs officials have arrested two men for allegedly smuggling gold and iPhones worth over ₹ 16 lakh into the country, according to an official statement.
The accused were part of a greater nexus and were involved in taking over and transporting smuggled gold, electronic items and foreign origin cigarettes from Lucknow international airport to Delhi, it said.
They were intercepted on Wednesday by the narcotics cell of Delhi Police. After they found these two men carrying smuggled gold in paste form, Delhi Police personnel informed officials of the customs (preventive), Delhi.
“A paste like substance suspected to be gold paste was recovered from them which was stitched in the belt and bottom margins of two jeans they were carrying. Upon extraction gold weighing 283.99 gms valued at ₹ 13,25,750 was recovered from the paste,” the statement issued by the customs (preventive) said.
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Kerala: Over 1 kilo gold seized by customs officials in two days in separate incidents at Calicut airport
Over 1 kilo gold has been seized by customs officials in a span of just two days in separate incidents at the Calicut Airport, Kerala. The Commissionerate of Customs (Preventive), Cochin has taken to Twitter to inform that the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) at Kozhikode (Calicut) airport has seized a total 653 grams of gold and 10,000 cigarettes from the possession of four passengers travelling by two different flights.
One passenger carried 325 grams of gold by flight SG 9560 from Jeddah. While the remaining three passengers carried 10,000 cigarettes, 207 grams of gold and 121 grams of gold separately by flight SG153 from Dubai, said the Commissionerate.
The person travelling from Jeddah concealed the gold inside adaptors and cello tape. While the three passengers travelling from Dubai hid the gold and cigarettes inside a speaker and the wheels of a trolley bag, the Commissionerate added.
The two cases are being investigated further said the Commissionerate of Customs (Preventive), Cochin in its tweet. In a similar case, a passenger arriving from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia was caught by the AIU at Kozhikode (Calicut) airport on September 5 carrying around 700 gms of gold valued at Rs 36 lakhs. The passenger had concealed the gold in a pressure cooker.
Lear MoreWater tanker carrying 10,000 liquor bottles seized in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur
The enforcement authorities in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur have seized at least 10,000 bottles of illegal liquor from a water tanker. The water tanker carrying illegal liquor was seized at Munagodu Mandal in Amaravati region of Andhra Pradesh.
Andhra Special Enforcement Bureau seized around 10,000 illegal bottles in the water tanker and arrested eight men involved in the supply of illegal liquor to other areas from Andhra Pradesh. The liquor was illegally being transported from Hyderabad to Amaravati.
The seizure of 10,000 liquor bottles is one of the largest to date. The Andhra Pradesh government has been taking all the precautionary steps to stop the illegal trade.
Even after the government slashed the prices of cheap liquor, it has not brought any visible impact on the rampant liquor smuggling.
Since liquor outlets reopened and a sharp 75 per cent increase in the prices, smugglers have been using trucks, carts, tractors, boats, water tankers, gas cylinders to smuggle liquor in the state from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Odisha, and Telangana.
Lear MoreLucknow: 13 detained at Amausi with Rs 71 lakh worth cigarettes, gold
LUCKNOW: In one of the biggest crackdown against smuggling of foreign origin goods via flights post Covid-19 lockdown, at least 13 passengers were detained along with over Rs 71 lakh worth cigarettes, perfumes and gold by the custom department at Lucknow’s Amausi airport.
The smuggled goods were seized on Saturday from back-to-back two flights — Fly Dubai and Air India Express — which were coming from Sharjah and Dubai.
Speaking to TOI, deputy commissioner, customs, Amausi airport, Niharika Lakha, said, “Total Rs 71,04, 011 worth of goods were seized from the passengers of two flights. The smuggled goods included ESSE Lights brand cigarettes worth over Rs 53 lakh, perfume worth Rs 2 lakh and 288 gram of gold worth Rs 15,28,011.”
According to custom department, three gold biscuits were found concealed in the inner side of the belt area of jeans, while suitcase full of cigarettes and perfume were caught during luggage scanning “Majority of the detained passengers were from Delhi, Rampur, Gorakhpur and Patna. They all were heading Delhi with the smuggled goods.
However, it is yet not ascertained whether all the accused men were working as individuals to earn quick buck from selling foreign origins goods in national capital, or work as gang, or for a gang,” said a custom official.
Four held in Delhi for circulating fake currency notes
Four men were arrested for allegedly printing and circulating Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) in the national capital, police said on Saturday. The accused were identified as Mohd Azeem Khan, Akil Ahmed, Akeel Ahmad and Nitin Patel, they said.
Police got a tip-off about a Pilibhit-based syndicate which was involved in smuggling FICN into Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) areas. On August 30, police learnt that two members of the gang would deliver a consignment of fake currency notes near the Anand Vihar bus terminal in Delhi, a senior police officer said.
“A trap was laid and Azeem Khan and Akil Ahmed were arrested with fake notes having a face value of Rs 1.20 lakh. On their instance, Akeel Ahmed and Nitin Patel were also arrested,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Sanjeev Kumar Yadav said. The printing workshop based at Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh was also busted in which all the instruments and papers were recovered, the DCP said.
The accused were involved in the illegal activity from the past several years. They have already circulated FICN having face value of over Rs 25 lakh in Delhi-NCR, police said.
Lear MoreDelhi Police Arrests Four Members Of Fake Indian Currency Notes, Seizes Rs 1.34 Lakhs
New Delhi [India], September 5 (ANI): The Special Cell of the Delhi Police has arrested four members of an interstate Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) syndicate and seized Rs 1.34 lakhs along with semi-finished fake currency notes of Rs 20,000, police said on Saturday.
According to the police, the arrested persons have been identified as Mohd Azeem Khan, Akil Ahmed, Dr Akeel Ahmad and Nitin Patel, all residents of Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit.
Apart from the fake currency notes, scanner, printer, wooden and iron frame, cutters, ink, tape and various other tools and other raw material used in printing of the FICN were also recovered from the posession of the arrested persons.
A case was registered under Section 489-B (using as genuine, forged or counterfeit currency notes), 489-C (possession of forged or counterfeit currency notes), 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and relevant sections of the Arms Act.
A team of Special Cell was working for last few months on various syndicates involved in manufacturing, supplying and circulating fake Indian currency notes.
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