On October 5, a joint team of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and Gujarat ATS raided a facility in Bhopal which was involved in manufacturing drugs. The operation assisted by local MP Police led to seizures of over 1,800 crore.
The amount of seizures is significantly high and comes a few days after the biggest-ever recovery of cocaine was made in Delhi. Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi praised the dedication of law enforcement in safeguarding the health and security of the society.
Osman Pushparaja Gerard, 46, was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department in Colombo after a Rs 2 million cash award was announced for his whereabouts. He is suspected to be the handler of the four Sri Lankans with alleged links to ISIS, who were arrested in Gujarat on May 19.
A senior Deputy Inspector General will head a team appointed to investigate four of its citizens arrested in Gujarat. They were arrested at the Sardar Vallabhai Patel airport in Ahmedabad after they travelled from Colombo via Chennai.
The ISIS-linked terrorists were identified as Mohammad Nusrat, Mohammad Faarukh, Mohammad Nafran and Mohammad Rasdeen, who had reached Ahmedabad on a flight from Chennai. They had arrived in Chennai from Colombo. They were arrested at Ahmedabad airport on Sunday.
The Director General of Police (DGP) will address the media at 4 PM to provide more details on the arrests and the ongoing investigation. This operation marks a significant achievement for the Gujarat ATS in their efforts to combat terrorism and ensure the safety and security of the region.
The operation marked the twelfth such seizure by the maritime agency in the last three years, including recent detention of a Pakistani fishing boat with 86kg of drugs on Sunday.
In a statement, Gujarat ATS said "The investigations are on to find out since when accused have been producing the drug, whether they sold it in the past and who else was part of the entire cartel."
The accused, identified as Anjum Qureshi alias Anjum Kanpuri, was booked under the Arms Act in 2005 and has now been remanded to three-day police custody.
According to police sources, the arrested alleged terrorists were highly radicalised and a weapon was recovered from their possession.
The prosecution had sought a 14-day remand of Setalvad and Sreekumar. The court of metropolitan magistrate SP Patel sent Setalvad and Sreekumar, both arrested in connection with an FIR lodged on Saturday by the city crime branch, to police custody till July 2, said public prosecutor Mitesh Amin.
The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad has arrested a 'sharp shooter' who was allegedly sent here by gangster Chhota Shakeel to kill a BJP leader, a senior ATS official said on Wednesday.
A prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, who is a close associate of the terror attack's key conspirator Tiger Memon, was arrested from the airport in Maharashtra's capital by the Gujarat ATS in a drug seizure case, a senior official said on Monday.
Bilal Ahmed was also involved in the suicide attack on Red Fort in Old Delhi on December 22, 2000 in which two soldiers and 1 civilian were killed.
Congress Rajya Sabha MP Ahmed Patel on Sunday wrote a letter to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, seeking an “impartial and objective” probe into the alleged ISIS link row.
The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Wednesday arrested two suspected ISIS terrorists from Surat.
Gujarat ATS on Sunday claimed to have arrested two suspected Islamic State terrorists from Rajkot and Bhavnagar.
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