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Plea in SC seeks life imprisonment for offences like bribery, tax evasion
A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre to ascertain the feasibility of confiscating black money, benami properties and disproportionate assets. The petition, which is likely to come up for hearing in the coming days, has also sought life imprisonment for offences such as bribery, black money, benami property, tax evasion, money laundering, profiteering, grain hoarding, food adulteration, human and drug trafficking, black marketing and cheating. The petition was filed by Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay in view of corruption watchdog Transparency International placing India at 80 in Corruption Perception Index earlier this year. Due to weak and ineffective anti-corruption laws, India has never been ranked even among top the 50 in the Corruption Perception Index but the Centre has not strengthened the laws to weed-out the menace of corruption, which brazenly offends rule of law as well as right to life, liberty and dignity guaranteed under Articles
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Over 256 kg of drugs seized, 12 people arrested across India over 2 weeks
Further, opium poppy and cannabis, which were being illicitly cultivated on 5,049 acres of land, were destroyed, it said.
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Cabinet okays India-Saudi pact to check smuggling, counter drug trafficking
Drug trafficking has also provided funding for insurgency and terrorism in various regions throughout the world
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Drug trafficking: SIT gives clean chit to Goa ex-home minister and his son
A senior police official said Wednesday that 15 people, including Naik and his son, were questioned but 'no evidence was found against them'
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