By way of PTI
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has were given the custody of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi in reference to a case of cross-border smuggling of substances, an authentic stated on Tuesday.
A Delhi court docket on Monday granted the transit remand of Bishnoi, who’s lodged in Tihar prison, to the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad.
The ATS desires to query the gangster about his conceivable hyperlinks in reference to the seizure 40 kg of heroin price greater than Rs 200 crore from a Pakistani fishing boat within the Arabian Sea off the Gujarat coast in September final yr.
“We have now were given Bishnoi’s custody and our groups are already on the right way to Gujarat. He’s going to be produced in a court docket in Kutch district by way of Tuesday night time,” a senior ATS authentic stated.
On September 14 final yr, the Gujarat ATS in a joint operation with the Indian Coast Guard intercepted a Pakistani fishing boat mid-sea close to Jakhau harbour in Kutch district and seized 40 kg of heroin price greater than Rs 200 crore.
Six Pakistani nationals on board the boat, named ‘Al Tayyasa’, have been additionally arrested at the moment.
Next investigations printed the heroin used to be supposed to be transported to northern states like Delhi and Punjab by way of street with the assistance of two Delhi citizens – Sartaj Malik and Jaggi Singh alias Virpal Singh – who have been intended to obtain the contraband.
They have been arrested afterward.
The Gujarat police had additionally stated the medication have been being smuggled as a part of a racket run by way of two traffickers, together with a Nigerian nationwide, these days lodged in jails in Punjab.
The wondering of the 8 accused had printed that drug traffickers Meeraz Rehmani and Ani Leader Obinna alias Leader (who’s a Nigerian) have been working the racket whilst sitting in prison.
Rehmani used to be lodged at a prison in Kapurthala and Obinna in Amritsar prison.
It’s alleged that either one of them have been running on the behest of Bishnoi.
They have been working the racket the usage of WhatsApp and VOIP (Web telephone) calls, police previous stated.
Within the Morbi drug seizure case of 2021, Gujarat police had additionally discovered the position of Bharat Bhushan alias Bhola Shooter, a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang who used to be allegedly working the drug community from a Punjab prison.
Bhushan died in prison just lately.
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has were given the custody of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi in reference to a case of cross-border smuggling of substances, an authentic stated on Tuesday.
A Delhi court docket on Monday granted the transit remand of Bishnoi, who’s lodged in Tihar prison, to the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad.
The ATS desires to query the gangster about his conceivable hyperlinks in reference to the seizure 40 kg of heroin price greater than Rs 200 crore from a Pakistani fishing boat within the Arabian Sea off the Gujarat coast in September final yr.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“We have now were given Bishnoi’s custody and our groups are already on the right way to Gujarat. He’s going to be produced in a court docket in Kutch district by way of Tuesday night time,” a senior ATS authentic stated.
On September 14 final yr, the Gujarat ATS in a joint operation with the Indian Coast Guard intercepted a Pakistani fishing boat mid-sea close to Jakhau harbour in Kutch district and seized 40 kg of heroin price greater than Rs 200 crore.
Six Pakistani nationals on board the boat, named ‘Al Tayyasa’, have been additionally arrested at the moment.
Next investigations printed the heroin used to be supposed to be transported to northern states like Delhi and Punjab by way of street with the assistance of two Delhi citizens – Sartaj Malik and Jaggi Singh alias Virpal Singh – who have been intended to obtain the contraband.
They have been arrested afterward.
The Gujarat police had additionally stated the medication have been being smuggled as a part of a racket run by way of two traffickers, together with a Nigerian nationwide, these days lodged in jails in Punjab.
The wondering of the 8 accused had printed that drug traffickers Meeraz Rehmani and Ani Leader Obinna alias Leader (who’s a Nigerian) have been working the racket whilst sitting in prison.
Rehmani used to be lodged at a prison in Kapurthala and Obinna in Amritsar prison.
It’s alleged that either one of them have been running on the behest of Bishnoi.
They have been working the racket the usage of WhatsApp and VOIP (Web telephone) calls, police previous stated.
Within the Morbi drug seizure case of 2021, Gujarat police had additionally discovered the position of Bharat Bhushan alias Bhola Shooter, a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang who used to be allegedly working the drug community from a Punjab prison.
Bhushan died in prison just lately.