Mumbai: The customs department has arrested the director of a pharmaceutical company and a broking firm director for allegedly attempting to export a controlled substance to the Czech Republic without a mandatory no objection certificate, or NOC, from narcotics authorities. The arrested were identified as Venkat Shinde, director of Veeprho Laboratories Private Limited, and Chandrashekhar…

Since the law came into force, authorities have registered 627 criminal cases, said the senior official. Of these, only 127 have ended in convictions Mumbai: Maharashtra has stepped up its drive against sex-selective abortions by inspecting nearly every sonography centre in the state and conducting sting operations, but convictions under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic…