Drugs with Rs 5000 crore recovered in Gujarat

New Delhi, Oct 13: In a joint operation, Delhi Police and Gujarat Police on Sunday seized 518 kg of cocaine worth Rs 5000 crore in Gujarat's Ankleshwar.

With this, 1289 kg of cocaine and 40 kg of hydroponic Thailand marijuana worth Rs 13,000 crore have been seized by law enforcement agencies within a fortnight in Delhi and Gujarat, sources said.

Delhi Police's Special Cell and Gujarat Police on Sunday claimed to have recovered 518 kg cocaine during a search conducted at a pharmaceutical company in Ankleshwar.

The value of the seized cocaine in the international market is said to be around Rs 5000 crore, sources said.

On October 1, the Special Cell raided a warehouse in Delhi's Mahipalpur and seized a consignment of 562 kg of cocaine and 40 kg of hydroponic marijuana. During the course of the investigation, on October 10, about 208 kg of additional cocaine was recovered from a shop in Ramesh Nagar in Delhi.

Police found that the drugs belonged to a company which had received them from the Ankleshwar-based pharmaceutical firm, the sources said.

Under the leadership of Minister Narendra Modi and the guidance of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, law enforcement agencies are taking forward this policy of zero tolerance against drugs and Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan (Operation of Drugs Free India), they said.