The NCB has so far arrested 16 people, including Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan, 23, in the drug seizure case.
According to the court's order dated March 8, Chaturvedi will not be tried on the charge of conspiracy and will face trial only for alleged possession of vials of cocaine in his Juhu residence.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday asked enforcement agencies to go after 'big fish' involved in drug trafficking, saying they need to find who is sending 'mountains' of illegal drugs into the country.
Salil Chaturvedi, director of Provogue, the apparel brand, was on Tuesday arrested in a drugs supply case relating to January 2005, the Mumbai police said
'In one case, she wasn't even there in the scene, but she just kept watching it and cheering me on.'
The actor was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) from Juhu area of the city in May, 2001 for illegal possession of cocaine.
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Musa and a top bureaucrat in a case relating to alleged irregularities in the import of a large amount of chemical Ephedrine, commonly known as "poor man's cocaine" and used to make a medicine for colds, flu and asthma.
The actor has been granted immunity by the Mumbai court in the case.
The police suspect that some bigwigs from the fashion and film industry are also involved in the case.
Non-BJP chief ministers are retaliating. If the Centre can use its agencies to threaten, intimidate and jail its rivals, so can they. The fightback will get more intense, observes Shekhar Gupta.
Restrictions imposed across the globe in 2020-21 due to coronavirus and the increased use of darknet resulted in two-to-three times jump in drug trafficking through couriers and postal services in India during this period, a latest NCB report has said.
While the NCB wants to frame charges against him for possession of 9 gms of cocaine -- seized from Nasir the special Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances court held that charges should be framed only for 1 gm, which Fardeen says he wanted to buy.
Officials were surprised at how quickly smugglers appraised the Covid situation to recruit jobless migrant workers to ship gold.
Additional Sessions Judge P N Deshmukh charged the actor for attempting to buy one gram of the drug five years ago, which attracts a lesser penalty than the 9 gm that was initially believed to be the amount the star was trying to buy.
'We are also seeing the birth of new evil, the new face of drug distribution where human interface has reduced; consumers are using the Dark Web to source supplies and using cryptocurrencies as payment mode.'
The NCB, which got the remand of Aryan Khan and the other eight accused from the court till Thursday, also claimed that in the WhatsApp chats he is discussing modes of payment to be done for procurement (of drugs) and that several code names are being used.
The court, in its order, noted that the investigation in the case was of prime importance and considering this aspect, the further presence of the accused before the NCB was necessary.
Indians will forever remember Akram as the scary phenomenon with the soft smile, the man who rattled through the Indian batting order, but was rarely as hated as Waqar or Shoaib Akhtar, observes Vaibhav Raghunandan.
Police have arrested three Nigerian nationals from Delhi following an interrogation of Sahil Zaroo, who allegedly procured drugs for the late Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan's son Rahul and his aide Bibek Maitra, and recovered narcotics.
Ontario Superior Court judge found that a police search of Avtar Singh Sandhu's tractor-trailer flagrantly violated his Charter rights.
commercial airlines and air navigation service providers have to carry out random drug tests on at least 10 per cent of their flight crew and air traffic controllers every year.
A constable of Jammu and Kashmir police and two others, arrested for their alleged roles in the narcotics business money derived from which was used to fundbanned terror outfit Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen, were on Monday sent to judicial custody till February 17 by a Delhi court.
Chaturvedi, who was arrested on August 3 on charges of possessing cocaine, had urged for bail contending that investigations were over.
Police officer Harminder Phagura is busted for aiding a 'friend' in carrying out cocaine deals.
While 14 cases of cocaine peddling have been registered, the cases with respect to other drugs are over 60
Around 100 people were detained at a rave party at a hotel in suburban Juhu Sunday evening and cocaine was seized, police said.
Before he was sentenced, Guzman, complained about the conditions of his confinement and told the judge he was denied a fair trial.
"There was no overdose, nor any poison. Her condition could have worsened as she had briefly stopped taking medicines and was suffering from weakness," said Inspector General of Prisons Bipin Kumar Singh.
if amount of cocaine is above two grams, the minimum punishment is ten years imprisonment, and maximum punishment is 20 years imprisonment.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera was convicted on numerous counts including money laundering, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, distribution of heroin and cocaine and other drugs, and illegal arms possession.
Amandeep Singh Dhami, 28, a fugitive wanted by Federal Bureau of Investigation in Sacramento, California for a shooting incident in 2008 was arrested in Jalandhar, said FBI spokesperson on Tuesday.
The Delhi high court will hear on Monday a plea by leading Bollywood producers seeking to restrain Republic TV and Times Now from making or publishing allegedly "irresponsible, derogatory and defamatory remarks" against the film industry and conducting media trials against its members on various issues. The lawsuit by four Bollywood industry associations and 34 leading producers, which was filed on October 12, will come up for hearing before Justice Rajiv Shakdher.
'Lifestyle, peer pressure, lure of extra pocket money and many other factors are responsible why youth are taking drugs.'
Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Musa has left Pakistan after the supreme court issued him a notice in a case related to alleged irregularities in the import of a large amount of the chemical Ephedrine, commonly known as "poor man's cocaine".
Given the impact Covid-19 pandemic had over the world economy, analysts expect global central banks, especially the US Fed, to keep the liquidity tap open, which, in turn, is likely to keep the equity markets, especially those in the emerging markets, buoyant.
The statements made by witnesses in the Central Bureau of Investigation's chargesheet in the Scarlett Eden Keeling case has exposed the underbelly of drug cartel run in Goa through beach shacks. British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling was found dead at Anjuna on February 18, 2008.
Romania striker Adrian Mutu called the decision to uphold his order to pay Chelsea 17.17 million euros in damages "profoundly unjust" on Monday and confirmed he may take the case outside the sporting courts.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport C(AS) has rejected Romanian striker Adrian Mutu's appeal against an order to pay 17.17 million euros ($24.2 million) in damages to Chelsea, the court said in a statement on Friday. Mutu, now playing for Fiorentina in Italy, was ordered to pay the sum by FIFA last year after he was fired by the Premier League club in 2004 for testing positive for cocaine.
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