Gujarat ATS nabs 3 with 120kg heroin worth Rs 600 crore from Morbi

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat anti-terrorism squad (ATS) arrested three persons from a village in Morbi district with 120kg of heroin on Sunday night. The seized drugs have an estimated international value of Rs 600 crore, DGP Ashish Bhatia told reporters here on Monday.
This drug consignment was allegedly sent by a resident of Pakistan, Zahid Bashir Baloch. He is a wanted absconder in the 2019 case in which 227kg of heroin was seized by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence.
Acting on an input received by deputy superintendent of police, ATS, K K Patel, a team of the Gujarat ATS led by DSP Bhavesh Rojiya raided an under-construction house belonging to one Shamsuddin Husseinmiya Saiyyed near the Dargah of Kotawala Pir in Jinjuda village of Maliya-Miyana in Morbi. The heroin was seized after the raid.
Patel had received an intelligence input to the effect that one of the accused, Mukhtar Hussein alias Jabbar Jodiya, and Ghulam Bhagad, residents of Jodia in Jamnagar and Salaya in Devbhoomi-Dwarka respectively, had smuggled in the narcotics through the sea route.
According to the input, the two accused were going to meet at night at the house of the third accused, Shamsuddin Husseinmiya Saiyyed alias Pirzada Bapu. Consequently, an ATS team nabbed the accused with the heroin at Saiyyed’s house.
Preliminary investigation has revealed that the consignment of heroin was brought by Hussein and Bhagad via the sea route and they had received the delivery from a Pakistani boat.
Isa Rav Hussein, brother of Mukhtar Hussein, was in contact with Pakistani-resident Baloch and had exchanged the coordinates for the delivery of the drugs in a mid-sea operation.
The drug consignment was delivered in the last week of October and it was initially hidden in the coastal region near Salaya. It was subsequently moved to Saiyyed’s house in Jinjuda village in Morbi.