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16,000 smugglers jailed, 627 kg heroin seized; drug syndicates’ financial backbone broken: Punjab police

June 10, 2025 11:46 am

Since the launch of the drive on March 1, Punjab Police has arrested over 16,000 drug smugglers and seized 627 kg heroin.

Jordanian military kills 27 in shootout with Syria smugglers

January 27, 2022 8:00 pm

Jordan is home to more than 650,000 Syrian refugees who fled the civil war that has raged there for more than a decade.

Forest staff attacked by ‘alcohol smugglers’ at Asola sanctuary

September 24, 2021 5:05 am

The officials were admitted to Batra Hospital. “The police was called, and we are in the process of filing an FIR,” Anand said.

Kochi: Customs official says he is receiving threats from smugglers

June 16, 2018 11:55 pm

"I deal with smugglers on a daily basis... I get direct, indirect threats, pressure to get into passive mode," the commissioner wrote on his Facebook page.

Gold bars looted from smugglers in Manipur

October 30, 2017 9:57 am

Police sources said the robbers may be members of a rival gang engaged in international gold smuggling and also did not rule out the possibility that they may have access to inside information about smuggling and have high connections.

Attempt to rob gold smuggler at Bangalore airport goes awry, 11 arrested

October 09, 2014 11:31 am

A gang of gold smugglers have landed in jail after a feud in the gang resulted in one group robbing the other.

2 cops suspended for taking bribes from red sanders smugglers in Andhra Pradesh

September 19, 2014 3:59 am

“The evidence shows that Uday Kumar, during his tenure, had received huge bribes from red sandalwood smugglers every month.”

BSF official lynched, local killed in clash near Bangladesh border

June 08, 2014 12:00 am

The BSF personnel initially fired in the air to disperse the mob and then opened fire in self defence, killing a local and injuring ten others, the DIG added.

Two officials stoned,axed,Andhra forest department waits for arms

December 17, 2013 1:41 am

Post-mortem reports have revealed that the two officers were probably alive after being stoned.

Two forest officers stoned to death in Andhra

December 16, 2013 12:23 am

This is the second incident of forest officials being killed by suspected red sanders smugglers.

SMUGGLERS VIDEOS

18 kg gold bars seized in Siliguri

February 18, 2016 10:55 am

Siliguri, Feb 18 (ANI): The Siliguri Police seized 18 kilograms of gold from three people after intercepting their car in Siliguri on Wednesday. Acting on a tip-off, police caught the smugglers passing by Salugara Monastery. The police recovered 13 thousand USD and a pistol with ammunition from them. When they (smugglers) and the car were searched, 18 bars of gold weighing 1kilogram each, total 18kilograms gold, 13 thousand USD, and one improvised pipe gun with two round of ammunition is what we have found. In India, smugglers risk a jail term of up to seven years, although such a penalty is rare and the main deterrent is confiscation of the gold. When the country first started stifling gold imports in 2013 to tackle a widening trade deficit, smugglers went to the extent of getting human mules to swallow nuggets or hiding gold bars in dead cows.

BSF seizes six packets of heroin from Punjab

January 06, 2016 12:23 pm

Firozpur, Jan 06 (ANI) : The Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday seized six packets of heroin, worth approximately Rs. 30 crore from the Khemkaran sector of Punjab.BSF official YP Singh said that three smugglers were arrested while smuggling heroin at the Indo-Pak border. He also informed that a Nokia mobile with a Pakistani sim was recovered from the three detained persons.

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