LSD blots, ganja seized in Kolkata, four arrested
Kolkata, April 17: The Kolkata unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested four persons including two teenaged girls involved in a drug trafficking racket and seized 56 LSD blots and around three kgs of ganja from them, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Acting on a tip-off, the NCB officials on Monday arrested Afreen Ali (19) from Kolkata's Belgachia with 19 LSD blots and 2.8 kg ganja.
The sleuths later arrested her childhood friend Jewana Philips (19) for supplying her the consignment, who in turn named Prasant Basnet (22) of Kolkata's Picnic Garden as her supplier, the official said.
"Based on the statements of the three accused, we arrested Debyendu Roy (32), the main supplier in the racket, and seized 37 more blots of LSD from his residence in Kolkata's Dum Dum Park area," Dilip Kumar Srivastava, the Zonal Director of NCB-Kolkata, said in a release.
According to the NCB, further interrogations revealed that Roy used to procure the LSD from his friend in Bengaluru on a regular basis and supply it to different clubs, private parties as well as to city schools and colleges through youngsters.
He was also arrested in 2015 by the Bengaluru police on charges of drug trafficking.
While Roy completed his post graduate diploma in Information Technology from Bengaluru, the other three were pursuing Class 10 from open schooling, the official said.
"The four arrested persons were produced in the court on Tuesday," he added.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
