Huge consignment of drugs worth Rs 376 crore seized from Gujarat's Mundra port
India Today
Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad has seized 75.3 kg of heroin estimated to be worth Rs 376.5 crore from a container in Gujarat's Mundra port.
The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad, in a joint operation with Punjab Police, seized 75.3 kg of heroin estimated to be worth Rs 376.5 crore from a container kept at Mundra port in Kutch district. The contraband was meant to be transported to Punjab.The Punjab Police gave a tip off to the Gujarat ATS that a shipping container which arrived at the Mundra port about two and half months back might be containing drugs and the cargo was meant to be delivered to Punjab.
On Tuesday, the suspected container was identified and officials found imported clothes in it. Further inspection revealed that clothes were wrapped on cardboard pipe. Another plastic coating was done on the cardboard pipe. Paper was glued with cello tape to dodge the authorities during x-ray scanning. Drugs were hidden inside the fabric rolls.
The ATS recovered 75.3 kg of heroin of high purity estimated to be worth Rs 376.5 crore in the international market.
Various state and central agencies, including the ATS and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), have in the recent past seized drugs worth crores of rupees from shipping containers arriving at Gujarat ports from other countries. The DRI in September last year seized nearly 3,000 kg of heroin, believed to have originated in Afghanistan and worth about Rs 21,000 crore in global markets, from two containers at the Mundra port.
In May this year, the DRI seized 56 kg of cocaine, estimated to be worth around Rs 500 crore, from a container near the Mundra port.
(With agency inputs)
