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Thursday, Aug 21, 2025
Illicit liquor brewing is rampant in the hill areas of Kottayam before Onam, prompting excise and police raids.
Officials seized 79 cans containing 2,765 litres of spirit reportedly smuggled from Hosur to Alappuzha.
Ajith Kumar, a 1995-batch IPS officer currently serving as the Additional Director General of Police (Armed Police Battalions)
The Narcotic Enforcement Squad seized 6.5 kilograms of cannabis and are investigating a larger network.
The plant was found growing among wild weeds on a plot of land near the Kottuvankonam Mahavishnu temple.
Vivek, alias Dooli Vivek, was apprehended for allegedly selling narcotics to patients.
Excise said that Diljith was part of a drug chain that distributed hashish candies and other drugs in campuses.
The US Federal Agency, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), has reported the seizure of a million painkiller tablets imported from India by these cartels
The driver then jumped out of the vehicle and escaped by scaling a nearby compound wall.
Kochi: Two Excise officers have been suspended from service after they were arrested along with two others for stealing money and mobile phones from a migrant labour camp near Perumbavoor. Salim Yusuf (52), excise preventive officer, Kunnathunad and Sidharth Mekkilakkattil (35) of the excise
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