<p>Twenty-four persons, including 19 women staffers, were booked after a bar was raided in <strong><a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/green-nod-for-new-thane-bhiwandi-road-to-ease-snarls-23464267" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Bhiwandi</a></strong> in Thane district, a police official said on Thursday, reported news agency PTI.</p>
<p>The Kongaon police station official added that the raid took place place on Tuesday.</p>
<p>"The accused were indulging in obscene acts. They have been booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for obscenity and other offences. No one has been arrested in the case. Further probe is underway," he added.</p>
<h2>Thane police seize ganja valued at Rs 14.35 lakh; four held</h2>
<p>An official said that the <strong><a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/thane-police-seize-ganja-valued-at-rs-14-35-lakh-four-held-23465773" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Thane</a></strong> police have seized ganja valued at 14.35 lakh and arrested four persons, reported news agency PTI.</p>
<p>A team of cops from the Chitalsar police station seized 42.5 kg of ganja from a car in the Subhash Nagar area of the city in the early hours of January 11, said Deputy Commissioner of Police Zone V (Wagle Estate) Prashant Kadam, reported PTI.</p>
<p>While two persons escaped from the spot, Thane police arrested one man and confiscated the vehicle and the drug, valued at Rs 14.35 lakh, he said. Subsequently, three more persons, two from Junnar in Pune district and one from Kalyan in Thane district, were arrested.</p>
<p>The four have been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, he added.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>2 Nigerians among 4 held in Thane and Palghar for drug possession; cocaine, MD seized</h2>
<p>Four individuals, including two <strong><a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/maharashtra-two-nigerians-among-4-held-in-thane-and-palghar-for-drug-possession-cocaine-md-seized-23464740" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Nigerian</a></strong> nationals, were arrested in separate cases of drug possession in Thane and Palghar districts of Maharashtra, police said on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Banned narcotics, including <strong><a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/mumbai-cocaine-disguised-as-shampoo-is-new-trick-for-smugglers-23376344" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">cocaine</a></strong> and MD (mephedrone), valued at more than Rs 12.80 lakh, were seized from their possession during the operations carried out last week, they said.</p>
<p>In the first operation, Crime Unit V acted on a tip-off and set a trap at Wagle Estate in Thane city. The operation resulted in the arrest of three suspects - Nigerian national Onyedikachi Precious Ikechukwu, 24, and two others, Alam Abid Shaikh, 27, and Usman alias Sonu Abdul Kadir Sheikh, 37, said the police, reported PTI.</p>
<p>Cocaine weighing 101.16 grams and valued at Rs 10,12,000 was recovered from them, said the police, adding an FIR was registered against the trio under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.</p>
<p><strong>(With inputs from PTI)</strong></p><p>
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