NEW DELHI — In a joint operation, Delhi Police and Gujarat Police on Sunday seized 518 kilograms of cocaine worth Rs 5,000 crore in Gujarat’s Ankleshwar.
With this, 1,289 kilograms of cocaine and 40 kilograms 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 kilograms of 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 5,000 crore, sources said.
On October 1, the Special Cell raided a warehouse in Delhi’s Mahipalpur and seized a consignment of 562 kilograms of cocaine and 40 kilograms of hydroponic marijuana.
During the course of the investigation, on October 10, about 208 kilograms 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.
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