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Three suspected members (faces blurred) of the inter-state drug racket arrested by the Pune rural police. (Photo Credit: Special Arrangement) In a major drug haul earlier this year, the Pune rural police quite literally stumbled upon 479 kilograms of marijuana concealed in 465 adhesive-taped packets and hidden inside two empty water drums abandoned on a secluded, uncultivated patch of land in Baramati. Suspecting that the consignment had been stockpiled to cater to the spike in demand during the Holi festival, the police launched a coordinated probe despite initially having no clues as to who had brought the marijuana there, where it came from, or who was meant to receive it.
Punjab, one of India’s least forested States, is challenging the perception that wildlife crimes are confined to dense jungles and protected areas. An analysis of the recorded incidents revealed that wildlife crimes were concentrated in the Shivalik foothills and within the districts of Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Pathankot, Rupnagar, SAS Nagar, and Tarn Taran.
Among other cases, Shubham Lonkar’s name has surfaced in connection with the recent firing outside Bollywood director Rohit Shetty’s house, for threatening financer Sunny Waghchoure, and in the Baba Siddique murder case.
