More than 300kg Ganja and other drugs seized being destroyed at the industrial area near Kolanad junction near Mangaluru
BENGALURU/BELAGAVI: Karnataka police will set on fire various psychotropic and narcotic substances worth over Rs 50 crore to mark International Day against Drug Abuse on Saturday. This includes nearly 24,000kg of marijuana alone seized in various districts.
The commissioner of police and superintendent in districts and cities, including Bengaluru, will oversee the mass destruction of narcotic substances seized last year. According to the home department, a record 4,066 cases were registered under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS), leading to the massive seizure worth more than Rs 50 crore, and arrest of 5,291 people.
Himanta Biswa Sarma with family members of the two minor girls who were found hanging from a tree, in Kokrajhar on Sunday
GUWAHATI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has directed the police to unearth cause of death of two minor girls whose bodies were found hanging from a tree under mysterious circumstances at a village in Kokrajhar district on Friday last. The chief minister had met the family members of the two minor girls at the village on Sunday.
After spending time with the family members of the deceased girls, Sarma said the government was not taking the death of the two girls from an indigenous community lightly.