Big success for Gujarat ATS: MD drug worth 500 crore recovered from village of Vadodara district, five arrested – Bharat Times English News

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The Action Task Force (ATS) has got great success in Gujarat. The team raided a factory near Vadodara and recovered drugs worth Rs 500 crore. So far 5 people have been arrested in this case. At the same time, the search is on for the other 4 people absconding from the spot.

Medicines were being made under the guise of chemicals
An ATS official said that MD drugs were reported to be prepared in a chemical factory in Sindhrot village near Vadodara city. After this, our team was engaged in its investigation for the last two days. After the completion of the investigation, the factory was raided late on Tuesday night and about 100 kg of narcotics was recovered from here. During the raid, ATS has arrested five people from the spot. While 4 accused escaped taking advantage of the darkness.

ATS has sealed the factory. The search operation is going on in the surrounding areas as well.

The narcotics were hidden in the buffalo stables
Gujarat ATS told that there is a chemical factory here. The medicine was being prepared in a shed next to the factory. There is also a stable of buffaloes in this shed, under the guise of which drugs were kept hidden. Without giving further details, the ATS said that the operation to bust the entire network is still on. Investigation is also going on as to who all the people of the chemical factory are involved in this drug business.

Even before this a factory was caught from Vadodara
Let me tell you, in the month of August this year also, the ATS seized 200 kg of mephedrone drugs worth about Rs 1,000 crore from a godown in Savli village near Vadodara city. Here too, drugs were being made under the guise of a chemical factory.

Forensic team has also been called to the factory to examine the recovered drugs.

Forensic team has also been called to the factory to examine the recovered drugs.

Large consignment of drugs seized in one year in Gujarat
23 April 2022 Drugs worth 70 lakhs seized from Vadodara
250 kg of narcotics seized from Kandla port on 21st April 2022
Drugs worth 60 crores seized from Ahmedabad airport on 3 March 2022
800 kg of narcotics seized off the coast of Porbandar on 12 February 2022
600 crore drugs seized from Morbi on 15 November 2021
65 kg heroin seized from Dwarka on 10 November 2021
Drugs worth 45 lakhs seized from Surat on 10 November 2021
Drugs worth 35 lakhs seized from Ahmedabad on 24 October 2021
117 kg of drugs seized from Banaskantha on 12 October 2021
384 grams of drugs seized from Sabarkantha on 10 October 2021
27 September 2021 Drugs worth 26 lakhs seized from Banaskantha
Drugs worth Rs 10 lakh seized from Surat on 24 September 2021
Drugs worth 150 crores seized from Porbandar coast on 23 September 2021
Seized 3000 kg drugs worth 21 thousand crores from Mundra port on 16 September 2021

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