Ahmedabad:
The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has seized drugs valued at over ₹ 1,900 crore since 2016, and out of these, narcotics worth ₹ 900 crore were recovered this year alone, officials said on Monday.
More than 70 people were arrested by the ATS during this period in some of the major cases related to narcotics, they said, adding that smugglers from Pakistan had been trying to use the Gujarat coast as a transit route to transport narcotics to their destination, especially in the last four years, but all such attempts were failed
Last year, the ATS had seized drugs worth ₹ 177 crore, in 2019 worth ₹ 526 crore, in 2018 of ₹ 14 crore, and in 2016 of ₹ 303 crore. No major contraband was seized in 2017, according to the ATS data.
Gujarat ATS Deputy Inspector General (Operations) Himanshu Shukla told reporters on Monday that Pakistani drug syndicates have been trying to use the Gujarat coast as a transit route for smuggling purposes, but all their attempts were failed by the state police and central agencies, like the Coast Guard and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).
