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KOLKATA: The Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police arrested five persons including a septuagenarian woman and seized banned drugs worth Rs 17 crore from their possession in Cossipore area of the city, an officer said on Sunday.
Acting on a tip-off, the STF intercepted two vehicles on Saturday and detained five persons two from West Bengal s Murshidabad area, two from Manipur and a 72-year-old woman from Assam, the officer said.
During the search of the vehicles, police found heroin and Amphetamine tablets (Yaba). A total of 2.097kg of heroin worth Rs 10 crore in the international grey market and around 1,50,000 pieces of the Yaba tablets weighing 17.250kg having a market value of Rs 7.50 crore were seized from their possession, he added.
Calcutta High Court
KOLKATA: Only the widow has the right over a dead man’s sperm, the Calcutta High Court has ruled, turning down an appeal by a father to be given his only son’s sperm preserved in a Delhi sperm bank.
The father had moved the high court in March 2020, saying their daughter-in-law had not only refused to give them the nod to get the sperm, but also refused to acknowledge their pleas. The father feared that if the sperm was destroyed, or unused, during the period of agreement with the hospital sperm bank, “they are going to lose their clan”.