{"id":92535,"date":"2024-07-11T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T09:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/11\/rs-4131-cr-drugs-seized-in-5-months-against-rs-897-cr-in-entire-2023-maharashtra-govt\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T09:40:12","slug":"rs-4131-cr-drugs-seized-in-5-months-against-rs-897-cr-in-entire-2023-maharashtra-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/11\/rs-4131-cr-drugs-seized-in-5-months-against-rs-897-cr-in-entire-2023-maharashtra-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Rs 4,131 cr drugs seized in 5 months against Rs 897 cr in entire 2023: Maharashtra govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-111658081,imgsize-9390.cms?fit=300,156&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Rs 4,131 cr drugs seized in 5 months against Rs 897 cr in entire 2023: Maharashtra govt\" title=\"Rs 4,131 cr drugs seized in 5 months against Rs 897 cr in entire 2023: Maharashtra govt\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"8\">Mumbai: The <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/anti-narcotics-teams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-narcotics teams<\/a> seized drugs of Rs 4,131 crore in five months of 2024 in <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/maharashtra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maharashtra<\/a>, a 360 per cent increase over the value of contraband seized in the last calendar year, the government data shows. The government also found the involvement of some police officials in drugs trade and they have been dismissed from service, <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/deputy-chief-minister-fadnavis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deputy Chief Minister Fadnavis<\/a> said in the <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/state-legislative-council\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state legislative council<\/a> on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=toppotime:1-->He was replying to a query raised by <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congress<\/a> legislator Ashok alias Bhai Jagtap. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The anti-narcotics teams carried out 12,648 operations and seized banned substances valued at Rs 897 crore in calendar year 2023. However, as of May this year, the teams conducted 6,529 operations and confiscated banned substances of Rs 4,131 crore in the state,&#8221; <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/fadnavis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fadnavis<\/a> said. <\/p>\n<p>These teams were formed following the Centre&#8217;s request to all state governments to develop a joint action plan, coordinating the efforts of various departments to check the <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/production-and-trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">production and trade<\/a> of banned substances, he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The state government has also unearthed the involvement of some police officials in such <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/malpractices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">malpractices<\/a>, and they have been dismissed from service,&#8221; the deputy CM added.<!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:1--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/rs-4131-cr-drugs-seized-in-5-months-against-rs-897-cr-in-entire-2023-maharashtra-govt\/articleshow\/111658081.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The anti-narcotics teams seized drugs of Rs 4,131 crore in five months of 2024 in Maharashtra, a 360 per cent increase over the value of contraband seized in the last calendar year, the government data shows. The government also found the involvement of some police officials in drugs trade and they have been dismissed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-111658081,imgsize-9390.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[79100,1896,79101,7104,79099,20018,22263,3056,2708,45216,32028,31,79103,3700,79102],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92537,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92535\/revisions\/92537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}