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The Gujarat police, in coordination with central businesses, had managed to apprehend fundamental culprits in 14 circumstances of drug seizures, Harsh Sanghavi mentioned. (Representational Picture/Timesof24)
Minister of State for Residence Harsh Sanghavi shared the info whereas responding to a set of questions by Congress MLAs in the course of the Query Hour of the Meeting.
Narcotic substances and liquor price Rs 6,413 crore have been seized in numerous components of Gujarat within the final two years, the state authorities knowledgeable the legislative Meeting on Friday.
Minister of State for Residence Harsh Sanghavi shared the info whereas responding to a set of questions by Congress MLAs in the course of the Query Hour of the Meeting.
As per the state authorities’s information, the police seized liquor, each nation made and Indian Made Overseas Liquor (IMFL), price Rs 212 crore in two years until December 2022.
The seized liquor included IMFL bottles price Rs 197.56 crore, country-made liquor price Rs 3.99 crore and beer bottles price Rs 10.51 crore, the info revealed.
The authorities additionally seized medication, reminiscent of heroin, charas, opium, hashish and methamphetamine, price Rs 6,201 crore from totally different components of the state in the identical interval, Sanghavi mentioned.
Whereas majority of criminals related to this unlawful commerce had been already caught, almost 3,700 accused are nonetheless at giant, he mentioned.
Senior Congress MLA Shailesh Parmar identified that these arrested have been solely small-time criminals and requested the minister what number of key conspirators have been caught.
The Gujarat police, in coordination with central businesses, had managed to apprehend fundamental culprits in 14 circumstances of drug seizures, Sanghavi mentioned.
One such case concerned the Pandi brothers, who have been accused of sending large portions of hashish (ganja) to Gujarat from their house state Odisha.
“The Gujarat police together with their Odisha counterparts seized properties price crores of rupees belonging to ganja kingpins Pandi brothers of their house state Odisha. The Pandi brothers used to ship large portions of hashish to Gujarat from Odisha’s Ganjam district. This police motion in opposition to drug sellers has turn out to be a case examine for different states,” the minister mentioned.
The Gujarat police have tightened the safety to such an extent that Pakistan-based perpetrators are unable to search out peddlers to smuggle medication into India by sea route, he mentioned.
“Karachi-based drug lord Haji Salim sends narcotics throughout Asia via his community. Since we now have tightened our safety, Salim was pressured to ship his personal son to smuggle medication right here as a result of no peddler was able to do the job,” Sanghavi mentioned.
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