Articles tagged under: Narcotics

Surat Police seizes 1 kg MD drug worth 1 crore; Accused peddler slips away

May 01, 2024
Surat Police seizes 1 kg MD drug worth 1 crore; Accused peddler slips away

Surat: The Surat Special Operation Group (SOG) and the Prevention of Crime Branch (PCB), in a joint operation, seized 1kg of MD drugs worth Rs. 1 crore near a Madrasa in the Lal Gate area. However, the drug dealer and the recipient of the mephedrone shipment managed to flee the crime scene. SOG assistant sub-inspectors Imtiyaz Fakru Mohammad and Jagsi Shantibhai received information that Mohammed Kasif, also known as Pasina Shaikh, would deliver a significant quantity of MD near Islamiyah Suf...Read More

NCB, Gujarat ATS and ICG nab 14 Pakistanis with 86 kg drugs off Gujarat coast

April 28, 2024
NCB, Gujarat ATS and ICG nab 14 Pakistanis with 86 kg drugs off Gujarat coast

Porbandar: Porbandar: Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB), Gujarat Police's Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) and Indian Coast Guard (ICG) in a joint operation apprehended 14 Pakistani nationals with 86 kg foreign drugs in their possession, from high sea, off Gujarat coast. The seized narcotics, namely Heroin & Methamphetamine, weigh around 86 kgs (approx), with a market value of approximately Rs. 602 Crores. The ICG ship Rajratan, equipped with ATS and NCB officials, positively identified the suspect...Read More

Gujarat ATS, NCB uncover 3 drug factories in Gujarat and Rajasthan; 10 nabbed

April 27, 2024
Gujarat ATS, NCB uncover 3 drug factories in Gujarat and Rajasthan; 10 nabbed

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in a joint operation today uncovered three factories engaged in manufacturing MD drugs. While two factories were found in Rajasthan, one factory near the state capital, Gandhinagar, was also raided. Authorities seized around 25 kg of MD drugs along with a substantial quantity of raw materials. Ten individuals have been nabbed and are currently under investigation. The agencies are probing the manufactur...Read More

Rs. 45 lakhs worth charas recovered from Dwarka beach

April 16, 2024
Rs. 45 lakhs worth charas recovered from Dwarka beach

Dwarka: The Special Operation Group (SOG) of the district police today recovered narcotics (charas) worth around Rs. 45 lakhs from a beach near a hotel in the Shantinagar area. According to the police, the SOG was conducting patrolling last night when, around 2 am, officers found a transparent plastic box near the beach opposite a hotel in Shantinagar, Dwarka. Upon examination, it was found that the substance inside the box was charas. In this operation led by in charge PI P.C. Singharkhia...Read More

3 held with 30kg of cannabis in Ahmedabad

April 10, 2024
3 held with 30kg of cannabis in Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad: Vejalpur Police apprehended three individuals near Shastri Bridge on Monday for allegedly possessing 30.5kg of cannabis. Rickshaw driver Faysal Mansuri, 27, along with Irfan Shaikh, 26, and Junaid Syed, 32, were nabbed while transporting the narcotics. Vejalpur Police got a tip-off that cannabis was being transported in an autorickshaw. After that, the head constable Prakash Soma, who was part of the team deployed at Shastri Bridge, tracked the autorickshaw to the metro station roa...Read More

Police nab drug dealer 30 nautical miles off Gujarat coast

April 06, 2024
Police nab drug dealer 30 nautical miles off Gujarat coast

Gir Somnath: The local police on Friday nabbed a narcotics dealer 30 nautical miles off the Gujarat coast. In the first such operation for Gujarat police, the narcotics dealer from Karnataka, who had been evading capture at sea for one and a half months, was apprehended in a case related to the seizure of a Rs. 350 crore drug haul. Gir Somnath SP Manoharsinh Jadeja said, "that during the interrogation of a drug peddler, it was revealed that Shivkumar Chennan Kounder, also known as Shiva, was ...Read More

20 years imprisonment to sacked IPS Sanjiv Bhatt for planting drugs

March 28, 2024
20 years imprisonment to sacked IPS Sanjiv Bhatt for planting drugs

Palanpur: A special NDPS court here has given 20 years imprisonment along with Rs. 2 lakh fine to sacked controversial IPS Sanjiv Bhatt in drugs planting case under NDPS sections 21(c), 27A (punishment for financing illicit traffic and harbouring offenders). Sanjiv Bhatt had committing crime of planting drugs in the hotel room of Rajasthan based advocate Sumer Singh Rajpurohit in 1996 when he was the district police chief of Banaskantha. CID Crime had arrested Bhatt and then Police Inspector...Read More

One nabbed with MD Drugs and Charas in Gujarat University area

March 22, 2024
One nabbed with MD Drugs and Charas in Gujarat University area

Ahmedabad: Vaseemkhan Pathan was arrested by Police with MD drugs and Charas at Gujara University. Police have also booked Anand based Rakib and Shahpur based Moeen alias Bhotu who gave drugs to Vaseem. Vaseem is resident of Khanpur area of city. When Special Operation Group (SOG) of Police nabbed him, he was bike and passing through the University road area. He had 4.345 g MD drug and 2.300 g Charas in his possession. DeshGujaratRead More

Rs. 480 crore drugs seized off Gujarat Coast from Pakistani boat; 6 nabbed

March 12, 2024
Rs. 480 crore drugs seized off Gujarat Coast from Pakistani boat; 6 nabbed

Porbandar: In an overnight joint operation during night of 11/12 March 2024, the Indian Coast Guard based on intelligence inputs, apprehended a Pakistani Boat with 06 crew and narcotics onboard, worth approx Rs 480 crores. The Boat was apprehended about 350 Km from Porbandar into Arabian Sea in a sea-air coordinated operation involving ICG ships and Dornier Aircraft. The operation exhibited well-coordinated efforts between ICG, NCB and ATS Gujarat. The Indian Coast Guard, on specific intellig...Read More

Gujarat ATS arrests 3 relatives of a drug dealer for smuggling 8 kg heroin

March 07, 2024

Veraval: The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Tuesday apprehended three relatives of the fugitive drug dealer Isa Hussain Rao, including his wife and son, for allegedly aiding him in smuggling 8 kg of heroin that had arrived at the Veraval coastline. Rao's wife, Tahira, and son, Arbaz, who reside in Jodia village in Jamnagar district, were among the detainees. The third individual, Rizwan Taiyab, the fiancé of Rao's daughter Masuma, was also arrested. The accused, booked under sectio...Read More