Revelation on drug manufacturing factory
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Smugglers used to order chemicals from GSTIN of other company, used to talk in emoji and code words and supplied drugs with code words like Happy Pills.
Naiduniya Representative, Bhopal: The work of manufacturing MD drugs was going on fraudulently in the factory of Bagroda industrial area of Bhopal. This disclosure was made by the three drug smugglers caught by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) during interrogation during remand. Arrested smuggler Amit Chaturvedi was fraudulently using the Goods and Services Tax Identification Number (GSTIN) of some factories in the industrial city of Bagroda. Through these he used to import chemicals from outside.
Used to ask for drugs in the name of Happy Pills
At the same time, NCB has also recovered the conversations of smugglers through internet media through codes and emojis on WhatsApp. In this, the three accused used to exchange one meter of cloth for one kilogram of MD using code words and emojis. NCB was monitoring this suspicious message on the internet media. It has been revealed that customers used to demand MD drugs in the name of Happy Pills.
3 smugglers on remand
Let us tell you that on October 5, NCB Delhi and ATS Gujarat recovered synthetic drugs from a closed factory in Bagroda, the industrial city of Bhopal and arrested Amit Chaturvedi and Sanyal Bane. After interrogating both of them, a smuggler named Harish Anjana was arrested from Mandsaur. Currently all three are on remand.
Chemical worth Rs 60 lakh recovered
After the matter came to light, Bhopal Police also came into action and traced the warehouse of Amit Chaturvedi and recovered chemicals worth Rs 60 lakh. During this time, the police has also claimed that if MD drugs were made from this chemical, its estimated price in the market would have been Rs 350 crore.
Collect GSTIN by roaming around
Drug factory partner Amit Chaturvedi has confessed during interrogation during remand that there were many times problems in ordering chemicals. GSTIN was required for this, so he had found an easy way out. They used to order chemicals using the name and GSTIN written on the board outside other factories.
Used to order chemicals from others’ GSTIN
Those sending chemicals used to ask for GSTIN and generate e-way bills. Amit was aware that first of all, the consignor will not immediately update it on the portal and even if he updates it, the person in whose name the GSTIN is registered will not always keep an eye on the portal. For this reason the original owner could not get information about it. After the goods were booked, he used to get the truck driver’s number from the transporter and get the goods unloaded at the factory.
The owner came to know while filing the return
This error in GSTIN came to the notice of the original owner while filing quarterly returns. However, Amit had done this only twice, when he had ordered goods from Gujarat. Chairman of Bagroda Industrial Committee, Navneet Vyas said that the chemical was procured from the GSTIN of the factory. This information has been given to the investigating agencies.
Anjana was also caught in smuggling of doda-sawdust in Gwalior.
Harish Anjana was caught by Gwalior Crime Branch and Mohana police station from Mandsaur on March 6, 2023. At that time he was the divisional president of BJYM. He was arrested after money transactions came to light in the case of smuggling of 1900 kg of sawdust in a truck in Gwalior.
The sawdust was brought in trucks from Nagaland. According to the team that arrested him, his supporters surrounded the vehicle when he was caught. When we left for Gwalior with difficulty, political influential people put pressure on us to leave on the way. Throughout the way, he had been threatening the policemen to make them take off their uniforms. As soon as he came out on bail, he again got into the black drug trade.