CBN Rajasthan Seizes 3,937 kg Poppy Straw in Anti-Drug Drives

The correct answer is 3,937 kg. This is the total quantity of poppy straw, known regionally as doda chura, recovered by the Rajasthan unit across the whole set of operations, alongside 9.6 kg of opium and 1.9 kg of hydroponic cannabis. Option B is wrong because 2,292 kg is only a rounded form of the single largest consignment, the 2,292.460 kg found in 118 bags inside a truck that was hiding the load beneath cement sacks; it is one case, not the total. Option C is wrong because 1,037 kg was recovered in 56 bags from a premises where a Fortuner car stood loaded with contraband, which is again a single case. Option D is wrong because 340 kg was the quantity taken from a Tata Harrier car in 23 bags. Adding these and the other smaller recoveries, such as 156.7 kg from a Honda Amaze and 110 kg from a Creta, gives the announced total of 3,937 kg.

The correct answer is the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, usually shortened to the NDPS Act. Every article recovered in these cases, meaning the poppy straw, the opium, the hydroponic cannabis, the cash, the vehicles and the country-made pistol, was seized under the relevant provisions of this Act, and further investigation into sources, destinations and supply channels is proceeding under it. Option A, the Indian Penal Code, 1860, deals with general criminal offences and is not the law under which narcotics seizures are recorded here. Option B, the Customs Act, 1962, governs import and export duties and confiscation of smuggled goods generally, and the release does not invoke it even for the parcel received from abroad. Option D, the Arms Act, 1959, is not named in the case either, although a country-made pistol with three live rounds was recovered during one of the searches.

The correct answer is the Foreign Post Office, Jaipur. The Rajasthan unit searched an international parcel that had come from the United States and found the hydroponic cannabis hidden in four packets inside an air circulator box. Option B names Jodhpur, which is a major city of the state but is not where the parcel was examined. Option C names an air cargo complex at Udaipur, and option D an inland container depot at Kota; neither figures in these cases at all, which involved a foreign post office, a truck stopped with poppy straw, a set of passenger cars used as carriers and residential premises where opium and cash were recovered. The weight recovered from the parcel, 1.9 kg, is counted in the overall haul reported by the unit, and the seizure was made under the provisions of the NDPS Act, 1985.