The central agency has pressed charges under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act after taking cognisance of a FIR and charge sheet filed by the Gautam Buddh Nagar (Noida) district police in Uttar Pradesh last month against him and other linked to him.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Saturday said it has arrested Jaffer Sadiq, a Tamil Nadu-based alleged dealer of narcotics, in connection with an international drugs trafficking investigation case.
Under attack from the Congress over the arrest of its MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira in a 2015 drugs case, Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said they are fighting against drugs and not against any party or a leader.
With his surrender, the police hope to unearth the racket and investigate the alleged role of some of the politicians from Andhra Pradesh in the scandal.
More than 60 people from Gujarat on board the Nicaragua-bound plane, which was sent back from France over suspected human trafficking, had agreed to pay Rs 60 lakh to Rs 80 lakh to immigration agents, who promised to cross into the US illegally after reaching the Latin American country, officials said.
The plane that took off from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates carrying 303 Indian passengers, including many minors, was grounded at the Chalons-Vatry airport in Marne on Thursday.
Anoyara Khatun, 18, now leads 80 groups of children, who are fighting against evils like child marriage, trafficking, child labour, besides other issues related to health and education.
The ED will probe if money earned from the illicit narcotics trade was laundered to create movable and immovable assets by the accused. The investigation will run parallel to the NCB probe, the sources said.
Patil has said that there needs to be a multi-pronged approach to the issue.
Haji Baz was one of eight individuals designated by President Bush for sanctions pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act.\n
The project, to be taken up through the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, will be carried out in Maharashtra, Goa, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh initially, an official statement said.\n\n
Ms Swaraj was a conscientious woman who understood suffering and pathos and attempted in her inimitable way to mitigate them, recalls Rup Narayan Das.
The drugs seized include 3,089 kilograms of charas, 158 kg of Methamphetamine and 25 kg of morphine.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Kolkata on Sunday in the first leg of her three-day visit to the country. During her two-day stay in the city, she will meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The two leaders are expected to discuss the Teesta water sharing treaty as well as the issue of FDI in retail.
As Thalapathy Vijay embarks on a career in politics, Arjun Menon looks closer at his glorious filmography.
India and Pakistan on Tuesday agreed to enhance cooperation through "effective and sustained steps" to control illicit drug trade and signed a Memorandum of Understanding to boost efforts to prevent the trafficking of narcotics and precursor chemicals.
Child protection groups are worried about unaccompanied children in Uttarakhand, reports Kavita Chowdhury
Two Indian nationals have been sentenced to death by two separate Malaysian High Courts for trafficking in 12 kilogram of ketamine drug, reports said on Tuesday.
Former cricketer Jacob Martin, who was wanted in connection with a human trafficking case, has been arrested from the national capital, police said on Wednesday.
Even though the NIA claims that more than 90 per cent of cases charge-sheeted have ended in conviction, the figure is likely misleading. To date, very few cases investigated by the NIA have resulted in a completed trial, points out former CBI joint director Navneet Rajan Wasan.
The United States government has added a top Taliban commander in Afghanistan to its list of drug trafficking "kingpins", in the first such designation to a senior leader of the outfit.
National security advisor Ajit Doval on Friday suggested that various central armed police forces of the country should have "jointness" and interoperability among themselves like the ongoing plan for the defence forces.
In the wake of the recent instance of Bharatiya Janata Party member of Parliament Babubhai Katara attempting to smuggle a woman out of the country posing as his wife, the government is planning to make laws more stringent
Kanchhi Maya Tamang, a trafficking survivor, summited Mt Everest with the message on Sunday, becoming the first to climb the world's highest peak for women empowerment and gender equality, according to UN Women Nepal.
A US State Department report on human trafficking has placed India on a Tier 2 'watch-list' because of what it said were existing bonded labour practices and the lack of adequate action to effectively end this.
He alleged the investigators have deliberately invoked a new penal section of the Indian Penal Code against him, which empowers them to keep him in judicial custody for 90 days instead of the normal 60 days.
Katara's counsel submitted before the court that no money was ever demanded by the lawmaker and it was his secretary Rajinder Kumar Ganpa who had got the alleged fake passport.
Vicky Nanjappa reports on the interrogation report of Shakeel Ahmed, a middleman who was arrested recently in the Kerala child trafficking case in which over 500 children were rescued.
Towards the end of the film, when one character exclaims, 'What a crazy case!' your sentiments feel validated, observes Mayur Sanap.
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday asked the Centre to take effective steps to curb drug trafficking going on through Pakistan, Afghanistan and Rajasthan.
The Indian government does not fully comply with the minimum standards for elimination of trafficking, it said but conceded that New Delhi is making 'significant efforts' to fight bonded labour. Equally dismal was the record of Sudan, Syria, Myanmar, Cuba, Fiji, Moldova and Papua New Guinea, according to grading done by the annual report.
'Our missions do not have any reliable data on the number of Indians staying or working illegally in foreign countries,' the MEA says.
India on Wednesday welcomed the United States move to designate underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's two top aides Chhota Shakeel and Tiger Memon as key drug traffickers, saying it was a reaffirmation of India's stand and asked "those countries" "harbouring" them to bring them to justice.
An all party meeting will be convened by Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee next week to discuss the issue of alleged misconduct of members in the backdrop of the human trafficking case.
The ICG and Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad apprehended the fishing boat in a joint operation in the high seas on Sunday afternoon, the coast guard said in a release in Ahmedabad.
In an address at a security conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in the Kazakh capital, he also underlined the need for holding accountable the sponsors, financiers and facilitators of terrorism, in remarks that came amid Pakistan's continuing support to various terror groups.
In its chargesheet, the CBI alleged that Kumar, during his tenure as Director General of ICCR, and Tyagi had entered into a criminal conspiracy with Singh and Sharma to facilitate trafficking of nine individuals to Germany. The modus operandi adopted by the accused was to send nine people to Berlin along with a dance troupe. On arrival, these people disappeared and later filed applications seeking political asylum under changed names.
Indian law-enforcement agencies are seizing an ever-increasing quantity of heroin from the Indo-Pak border indicating a rise in trafficking of contraband from its neighbouring nations through the country, a report said. According to the annual report of the International Narcotics Control Board released on Wednesday, the quantity of heroin entering India from Pakistan and Afghanistan has increased in the year 2007 than the previous years.
Lingaiah reportedly confessed that he met Rashid, the alleged kingpin in the trafficking scam, who surrendered before the CCS police on May 3 and admitted having obtained a fake passport in the name of his wife for a Gujarati woman.
Quoting officials, The Washington Post said, the foiled assassination was part of an escalating campaign of aggression by RAW against the Indian diaspora in Asia, Europe and North America.
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