Gujarat police seized Rs 5,956 crore drugs in two years: Government
Gujarat police have seized Rs 5,956 crore drugs and arrested 48 foreign nationals involved in drug trafficking during the last two years, the state government informed in the assembly on Wednesday. During a heated debate in the assembly over the issue of drugs, Gujarat Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi asked the opposition Congress to stop doing politics on the matter.
The minister also questioned Congress' intention to only mention the Adani Group-run Mundra port in Kutch where central agencies in 2021 seized 3,000 kilograms of heroin valued at Rs 20,000 crore from two containers imported from Afghanistan.
During the question hour, Congress MLA Geniben Thakor sought to know if the state government wants to arrest those handling operations at the Mundra port in view of the seizure of large quantities of drugs in 2021.
In response, Sanghavi said Mundra is not the only port from where the Gujarat police have seized drugs.
He was referring to the seizure of Rs 200 crore heroin by the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and the Department of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) from a container at Kolkata port in West Bengal in 2022.
«The Adani-run Mundra port is the only port from where Gujarat police had seized drugs. We should not politicise the issue of drugs. Why did you mention only Adani port? Why did you not mention about the seizure of drugs by the ATS from West Bengal where your party is having an alliance,» Sanghavi said without elaborating.
He then informed the House that the Gujarat police seized nearly
