NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, NOV 15
In its efforts to put an end to smuggling of narcotics, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) recovered 120 kg of heroin worth Rs 600 crore from Zinzuda village in Morbi district and arrested three people.
Mukhtar Hussein alias Jabbar Jodiya, Shamsuddin Hussein Saiyyed and Ghulam Hussein Umar Bhagad were arrested in an operation carried out by the ATS along with local police.
“Preliminary investigation has revealed that the consignment of heroin was brought by Mukhtar Hussein and Ghulam Bhagad via the sea route after receiving the delivery from a Pakistani boat. This drug consignment was sent by Zahid Bashir Baloch, a resident of Pakistan, who is absconding in an earlier case pertaining to the seizure of 227 kg of heroin in 2019,” the Gujarat ATS said in a statement.
This consignment of heroin was to be handed over to the Indian smugglers to be transported to an African country, the Gujarat ATS said.
“Another achievement of Gujarat Police. Gujarat Police is leading from the front to eliminate the drugs. Gujarat ATS has nabbed around 120 kg of drugs,” said Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi.
Addressing a press conference, Himanshu Shukla, DIG Gujarat ATS, said, “The Gujarat ATS has seized drugs worth Rs 1,320 crore in the last one year. The drugs are entering India from countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan, where a lot of production happens.”
