22 kg ganja seized at Kolkata airport, four arrested
Kolkata, July 11 : The Narcotics Control Bureau's Kolkata wing on Tuesday busted an inter-state drug syndicate arresting four persons, including a Go Air employee, from the airport here and seized 22 kgs of ganja from them, a senior NCB official said.
The ganja was sourced from Odisha and was destined to the Andaman Islands.
"Three persons, named Mithu Roy, 34, Trishna Biswas, 38 and Gopal Nayak, 25, were initially arrested with 22 kgs of ganja from the NSCBI Airport here on Tuesday. The accused were trying to smuggle the ganja to Andaman," NCB Kolkata Zonal Director Dilip Kumar Srivastava said in a release.
"Upon interrogating Nayak, a Go Air airlines employee named Sunny Hela, 26, was also arrested in the case," he said.
The official said Hela, who worked with Go Air and JP Associates, used to facilitate the trafficking by providing the smugglers with 'X-Ray checked' tags to the traffickers beforehand at the airport.
"With the help of the tags the traffickers could escape the X-Ray scanning of the contraband," he added.
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
