Missing First Lady puts police on edge

Iceland's First Lady gave some anxious moments to the Mumbai police when she went incommunicado for a few hours from her suite at Hotel Trident.

Dorrit Moussaieff, wife of Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, went "missing" for six hours from the hotel on Monday, following which police were put on alert.

"We were about to launch a manhunt for the President's wife across the city, when she walked into the hotel with shopping bags," a senior officer at Marine Drive police station said.

Dorrit, he said, had gone for shopping and had visited a spa.

The President and his wife, on an official visit to the country, had made a low-key stopover in the city and attended a dinner at Raj Bhavan on January 12.

While Dorrit arrived in Mumbai on Monday morning, the President had reached later in the evening.

At around 1130 hours, Dorrit suddenly disappeared from her suite. "A team of around 25 policemen deployed for her immediately informed us at the police station after which more men were pressed into action," the official said.

Sources in Mumbai police's Protection Branch said as the First Lady did not want a heavy police escort only a few from the Branch accompanied her. The matter was a closely guarded secret and even policemen deployed for her security did not get a whiff of it.

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Police bust marijuana racket in Assam

A multi-crore international marijuana racket was busted Wednesday in Assam with authorities destroying up to 2,000 kg of the contraband substance on the outskirts of Guwahati.

A police spokesperson said marijuana cultivation spread over an estimated seven acres of land was destroyed at Jursimolu village, about 50 km west of here.

"Based on specific inputs, we raided the village and (were) surprised to find marijuana being cultivated in a massive way," H.K. Nath, additional police chief of Kamrup Rural district, told IANS.

"We managed to destroy about 2,000 kg of marijuana cultivated in an area spread over seven acres of land."

Police said the area was inhabited by illegal Bangladeshi migrant settlers.

"Locals said crude marijuana is stacked in sacks mixed with garlic and jute and transported to Bangladesh using the river route," the police official said.

"We are investigating the matter and the possibility of some drug lord operating this racket cannot be ruled out."

Locals, however, alleged that there was a nexus between the police and the marijuana farmers as a police outpost was located just about two kilometres from the village.

"We shall continue with our operation and wipe out the entire cultivation. We found people in their backyards also cultivating marijuana, besides in huge tracts of land close to the river bank," Nath said.

A kilogram of marijuana sells at about Rs.5,000.

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