Overview
- Bengaluru police arrested 11 alleged drug peddlers and produced all of them before courts, with officers saying nine of the accused are from other states and now remanded to judicial custody.
- The city seizures total about 36.687 kg of narcotics, including 2 kg of MDMA, 1.767 kg of hydroponic ganja and 32.920 kg of ganja, plus ₹5.90 lakh, two iPhones and a two-wheeler, while Ludhiana police recovered 15 kg of ganja from a mother-son duo along with ₹31,400 and packaging material.
- Ludhiana police registered an FIR under Sections 20, 25, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act after intercepting a suspect and arresting his mother following interrogation.
- Officers say interrogations indicate the detained peddlers procured narcotics from suppliers in other states and sold them at higher rates to the public, including college students, and investigators are pursuing leads to identify and arrest those upstream suppliers.
- Police gave a book value for the seized drugs of about ₹2.85 crore and an estimated illicit market value of ₹5.70 crore, and officials say intelligence-driven follow-up probes will focus on supply chains and further arrests.