Porbandar : Gujarat ATS and Coast Guard have seized more than 200 kg of drugs in a joint operation. The drugs were to arrive in Gujarat by sea, but before that, ATS and Coast Guard seized the drugs from the sea area of Porbandar. Two people were coming from Iran with this drug, who have been arrested. Gujarat ATS has arrested two Irani drug peddlers.
Gujarat ATS DIG Sunil Joshi said that SP K.K. Patel had received information that drugs were to be delivered to Punjab by speed boat. As soon as the information was received, a team was formed and the help of the Coast Guard was taken. After a long wait, 2 people came in a speed boat. They came from Iran in a speed boat. Speed boats never come for delivery. Investigators found 203 packets in the bore. It is not being detected which drugs are there.
The data from the phone recovered from the accused is being examined. The accused speaks Balochi language. Coming in a speed boat is considered daring. The man from Punjab was supposed to take delivery. The operation was carried out 140 miles away at sea. The boat is made in Iran. The boat also had extra diesel and food items. There was enough supplies to last for 3-4 days. Gujarat’s coastline is 1600 kilometers long. Drug trafficking has increased along this coast for a long time. Gujarat’s coast has become a silk route for drug trafficking.
In 2019, four accused were hanged in Sri Lanka for drug crimes. The international drug cartel was shaken after 43 years when drug smugglers were hanged in Sri Lanka and it looked towards a different route. In this, its eyes fell on Gujarat and since then Gujarat has become the AP center for the land transportation of drugs coming from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Central, North and East Asian countries.
Gujarat’s 1600 km long coastline is being used to smuggle drugs, and foreign developments are largely responsible for this. Earlier, drugs coming to Gujarat used to go to Australia and Europe via sea via Sri Lanka, but in 2019, the government changed in Sri Lanka and Maithripala Sirisena became the President. He gave the Navy there a free hand to monitor drugs coming into the sea to curb the drug menace. Not only this, on June 26, 2019, Sirisena signed the death sentence of four smugglers in a drug case.
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