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Police seize foreign currency from Bhavnagar Bhavnagar:
Narcotics department in Bhavnagar district seized foreign currency
coins worth rupees 1.4 million, officials said today. The rich haul
of 1.3 million quarter American dollars was made during a raid on a
local casino on Saturday. Officials also seized foreign liquor worth
Rs.400, 000 "As per information from our officer, we conducted a raid
and seized around 380 bottles of foreign liquor worth 400,000 rupees.
Along with the liquor, we also seized foreign currency coins whose worth
in the Indian market is 1.4 million rupees," said M.B.Joshi, prohibition
superintendent of state Narcotics department. Joshi said the owner of
the casino, Sanjay Mehta, has not been arrested as the case has been
transferred to the excise department which would now take action against
the casino. Unrest in Gorakhpur over sale of spurious foodgrains (Go to Top) Gorakhpur (UP): An agitated public in this small town in Uttar Pradesh have come on the streets to protest over the alleged distribution of foodgrains laced with poison. If the public is to be believed, traders are selling adulterated grains in packets. "The rejected seeds are not sold. Tender is done on them. The trader who has a license, his tender will only be accepted. One who has the highest rate, his tender will be given to them. After this, we make them write on the stamp paper as guarantee that it would not be used as food for birds, animals or humans. After that only, will it be auctioned," claimed R.S. Lal, a project officer attached with the Uttar Pradesh Seed Development Corporation. "You
are saying that the traders are auctioning grains after taking an affidavit.
The traders say they will not sell it and they sell. So, it is cheating.
Honesty would be such that the grain, which had become uneatable should
not have been sold. The grains should have been destroyed. The traders
themselves knew that the grains were uneatable. In today's generation,
I don't believe that someone who promises to sell the grains as starch
should cause unrest among the public. I think the grains instead of
being auctioned should be destroyed so that there is no human damage,"
said Dayashankar Dubey, the chairman of the local traders association.
"The traders are playing with their customers' lives by selling these
grains. The traders are earning a profit even though they are selling
the grains at a subsidized rate," he added. 5,000 bottles of smuggled cough syrup seized (Go to Top) Agartala:
The Border Security Force on Sunday seized 5,000 bottles of a banned
cough syrup in Tripura. A BSF spokesperson said the consignment of Phensedyl
was being smuggled across Bangladesh from Bishalgarh sector before it
was seized. BSF commandant Jaypal said the cost of the Phensedyl increases
upto four times after reaching Bangladesh. "Even though it costs only
50 rupees in Tripura, after being smuggled out to Bangladesh it costs
around 200 rupees. Many youth are in taking it across the border," said
Jaypal. Three people, including a Bangladeshi national, were arrested
in connection with the smuggling. Mahendra Bahadur, one of the accused,
said: "Those for whom I work pay me 500 rupees which includes the cost
of the vehicle in which the bottles are smuggled. Generally, we take
the consignment upto Bishalgarh from where it is despatched to Bangladesh."
Jaypal said in Bangladesh many poor people take Phensedyl as a substitute
for liquor. Smuggling and infiltration along the 4,000 kms porous border
with Bangladesh is rampant despite fencing. |