Ahmedabad: Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad confiscated drugs 2,170 crore in the last three years and has arrested 73 people, including many Pakistani nationalin this regard, ATS Said on Sunday.
It claimed that Pakistani smugglers tried several times to use the Gujarat coast to smuggle drugs, but all such attempts were foiled.
The Gujarat ATS launched a joint operation with the Indian Coast Guard and local police to bust several such attempts, the counter-terrorism agency said in a release.
In 2021 alone, drugs In the last two years, seizures worth Rs 1,466.18 crore were made, while medicines worth Rs 704.04 crore were seized.
Many of these seizures were made in operations in the Arabian Sea off the Gujarat coast, close to the international maritime border with Pakistan.
This figure does not include the seizure of drugs worth Rs 21,000 crore by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) from Mundra port in Kutch district in September last year. That case is now being investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Between 2019 and 2021, the state ATS seized 427.3 kg of heroin, 6.65 kg of MD (a synthetic stimulant) and 3.54 kg of brown sugar, the release said.
In 2019, the ATS seized 100 kg of heroin worth Rs 500 crore in an operation conducted in the Arabian Sea, 178 nautical miles off the Gujarat coast. In further investigation, five kilograms of MD medicine worth about Rs 25 crore was seized from New Delhi.
In 2020, the ATS intercepted a suspicious boat off the state’s coast and seized 35 kg of heroin worth Rs 175 crore, the release said.
The ATS said that there was a sharp increase in the number of operations conducted in the Arabian Sea in 2021, in which 60 kg of heroin worth Rs 300 crore was seized in two major operations, in which 15 Pakistani nationals were arrested.
120 kg heroin worth Rs 600 crore was seized from an under-construction house in Morbi, which was smuggled into India via the state’s coast. Three people have been arrested in this connection.
Further investigation led to the seizure of 155.30 kg of heroin worth Rs 776.5 crore and arrest of 14 persons including a Nigerian national.
It claimed that Pakistani smugglers tried several times to use the Gujarat coast to smuggle drugs, but all such attempts were foiled.
The Gujarat ATS launched a joint operation with the Indian Coast Guard and local police to bust several such attempts, the counter-terrorism agency said in a release.
In 2021 alone, drugs In the last two years, seizures worth Rs 1,466.18 crore were made, while medicines worth Rs 704.04 crore were seized.
Many of these seizures were made in operations in the Arabian Sea off the Gujarat coast, close to the international maritime border with Pakistan.
This figure does not include the seizure of drugs worth Rs 21,000 crore by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) from Mundra port in Kutch district in September last year. That case is now being investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Between 2019 and 2021, the state ATS seized 427.3 kg of heroin, 6.65 kg of MD (a synthetic stimulant) and 3.54 kg of brown sugar, the release said.
In 2019, the ATS seized 100 kg of heroin worth Rs 500 crore in an operation conducted in the Arabian Sea, 178 nautical miles off the Gujarat coast. In further investigation, five kilograms of MD medicine worth about Rs 25 crore was seized from New Delhi.
In 2020, the ATS intercepted a suspicious boat off the state’s coast and seized 35 kg of heroin worth Rs 175 crore, the release said.
The ATS said that there was a sharp increase in the number of operations conducted in the Arabian Sea in 2021, in which 60 kg of heroin worth Rs 300 crore was seized in two major operations, in which 15 Pakistani nationals were arrested.
120 kg heroin worth Rs 600 crore was seized from an under-construction house in Morbi, which was smuggled into India via the state’s coast. Three people have been arrested in this connection.
Further investigation led to the seizure of 155.30 kg of heroin worth Rs 776.5 crore and arrest of 14 persons including a Nigerian national.