In the second main incident of drug bust from Gujarat’s Mundra port in a single yr, the state anti-terrorist squad (ATS) and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Tuesday seized Rs 350 crore price heroin in a joint-operation after container from the Middle-East was intercepted by the companies on the port owned by the Adani Group.
The container, which was formally carrying textile, was hiding greater than 70 kg of heroin after bodily searches have been carried out, reported The Indian Express, citing officers.
“The process of weighing and ascertaining the exact weight of the consignment is still ongoing. But it has been confirmed that the banned substance found inside the container is heroin and it weighs more than 70 kg,” IE quoted sources as saying.
Gujarat Director General Police Ashish Bhatia is more likely to temporary the press later at the moment on the joint operation undertaken by the ATS and the DRI.
This is the second occasion in exactly a yr the place a big consignment of heroin was seized by the authorities on the Mundra port, the biggest personal port in India positioned on the Gulf of Kutch.
In September, the DRI had stopped three containers, formally carrying semi-processed talc stones, from the Bandar Abbas port in Iran. After conducting searches, it was discovered that 2988.21 kg heroin price over Rs 21,000 crore have been hidden inside. The DRI had nabbed a Chennai couple, whose agency had allegedly ordered the consignment. Further probe revealed that the banned substance had come from the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan through Iran. Soon after, the investigation was handed over to the counter-terrorist activity pressure NIA.
The drug seized from the September bust final yr was the biggest drug consignment to be intercepted in India and was destroyed at an organization within the Kutch district final month, with the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman overseeing the operation nearly from Delhi.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”