The Prohibition and Excise Police here have seized 34 kg of dry ganja packed in 17 packets and arrested one person in Shanthi Nagar area in the district headquarters on Sunday. According to K.A.B. Sastry, Deputy Commissioner, D. Gayatri, Assistant Superintendent, along with a team conducted the raid in the wee hours acting on a … Read more
Customs officials seized 1,166 gm gold in the form of 10 biscuits from two U.P.-based passengers here on Saturday. The officials put the estimated value of gold seized at ₹51.32 lakh. The two passengers were arrested. Sources said that one of the accused, who was travelling from Dubai to Visakhapatnam via Hyderabad, handed over the … Read more
The Puttur sub-division police on Tuesday conducted a cordon and search operation at Thadukupeta village near Puttur and seized 2,000 litres of fermented jaggery wash and 200 litres of arrack stocked in several houses. Ten persons were taken into custody for questioning. Addressing mediapersons, Deputy-SP (Puttur) D. Muralidhar said after receiving information about the manufacture … Read more
In a major haul, the Chittoor police seized gutka stocks worth about ₹1.5 crore from an illegally operated godown at Satyavedu in the district, located just a few km away from the Tamil Nadu border, in the wee hours of Sunday. The police nabbed seven persons, including the kingpin of the clandestine operation, and seized … Read more