A joint operation by anti-narcotics businesses led to the seizure of about 700 kg of medication and the arrest of eight Iranian nationals from Indian territorial waters off the Gujarat coast on Friday.
The Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) issued an announcement, saying an operation codenamed ‘Sagar Manthan – 4’ was launched based mostly on intelligence inputs. A vessel was recognized and interdicted by the Navy by mobilising its maritime patrol belongings.
An enormous consignment of about 700 kg of Methamphetamine was interdicted in Indian Territorial waters. Throughout this operation, eight international nationals had been arrested who declare to be Iranians, the NCB stated.
The operation was carried out collectively by the NCB, Navy and Gujarat Police Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) Union House Minister Amit Shah stated the operation stands out as a stellar instance of the federal government’s dedication to the imaginative and prescient and the seamless coordination amongst our businesses in reaching the identical.
“Pursuing PM Shri @narendramodi Ji’s imaginative and prescient for a drug-free Bharat, our businesses in the present day busted a world drug trafficking cartel and seized over approx. 700 kg of contraband meth in Gujarat,” Shah wrote on ‘X’
