Delhi has become an important transit point of narcotics and the Union Home Ministry attributes it to the capitals proximity to opium producing states like Uttar Pradesh, and being the centre of the transportation network.
Statistics available with the Ministry reveal while 1,140 cases were registered by the Delhi Police in 2005, as many as 790 cases have been registered till mid-July this year.
Sources in the Ministry said 1,808 people were arrested last year while the figure for this year was 1,013 so far.
The main recoveries included ganja -2,907 kg in 2005 and 1,204 kg so far this year, charas - 227 kg last year and 125 kg this year and smack and heroin - 117 kg in 2005 and 69 kg till mid-July, they said.
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New Delhi : Rahul Mahajan, son of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, was arrested here today under the Narcotics Act, police sources said.
Rahul has been booked under the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) Act on the charge of sale and purchase, consumption and sources of drug, they said.
We have sufficient evidence and that is why we have arrested Rahul Mahajan, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Delhi Police Manish Agrawal told reporters outside Apollo Hospital.
We are seeking the opinion of doctors to have Rahul discharged. Prima facie charges against him are drug consumption, destruction of evidence and use
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Given its vast resources, both intellectual as well as financial, its not surprising that the World Banks latest Development Policy Review has fascinating insights as far as Indias growth prospects and delivery of core public services (like education and drinking water) are concerned. While the comparisons drawn on Chinas huge advances on the infrastructure front and the impact on growth are well-known, the examples on service delivery are not so well-known but equally vital. For instance, while Indias success in the pulse polio programme was something to shout about, as the Bank points out, routine immunisation levels are not only
New Delhi : Indias Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Sunday seized 4.5 kg of heroin worth Rs.45 million ($1 million) from two people here in what is believed to be one of the biggest drug hauls in recent times in the country, officials said.
Padamvir Singh and Sarfaroz Khan were arrested from near the Millennium Park on the ring road in east Delhi. The duo had brought the contraband from Agra in Uttar Pradesh, officials said.
The NCB, which had prior information about the consignment, had laid a trap to nab the duo.
They were coming from Agra (Uttar Pradesh) in