NIA Will Investigate The Case Of Smuggling 3000 Kg Heroin

NIA will investigate the case of smuggling three thousand kg heroin, a large consignment from Afghanistan was caught from Mundra port.

NIA will now investigate the case of seizure of about three thousand kg heroin from Mundra Port in Gujarat.

Following the instructions of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the NIA has started the investigation by registering an FIR.

Along with the NDPS Act, sections related to terrorism under the Unlawful Activities Act have also been included in the FIR of the NIA. Earlier this matter was being investigated by the DRI.

A senior Home Ministry official said that the heroin seized in such a large quantity at Mundra Port is not just a case related to drug smuggling.

But its terrorist activities in India as well as funding of anti-India terrorist organizations operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan. 

The DRI was probing the case only from the angle of drug smuggling. But in view of the possibility of terrorist funding, it was decided to get it investigated by the NIA.

Indian security agencies had feared the hand of Pakistan intelligence agency ISI and Afghanistan-occupied Taliban behind such a huge amount of drug smuggling.

The biggest thing is that heroin worth about 21 thousand crores was sent in two containers through Iran’s Bandar Abbas Port after the Taliban occupation in Afghanistan.

Heroin was shipped as a stone of unrefined talcum powder. During the investigation, the DRI had arrested the directors of the importing company as well as some Afghan nationals.

But he was not able to reveal the big terrorist funding racket behind it.

The senior official said that even before the recovery of 3,000 kg of heroin seized from the Mundra port, there have been indications of smuggling of heroin in large quantities.

In June also, in the name of that company, Aashi Trading Company registered at Vijayawada address of Andhra Pradesh, in the name of which heroin was sent under the guise of talcum powder, had imported 25 thousand kg of talcum powder.

It is believed that the talcum powder that came in June was also heroin, which is worth more than 70 thousand crore rupees.