ATS has taken major action before the elections in Gujarat. Where the ATS team has seized raw material worth Rs 478.65 crore along with mephedrone drug.
Gujarat ATS arrested 5 accused. (representative picture)
Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad Vadodara Big action in the city. Where by raiding a manufacturing unit located on the outskirts, banned mephedrone drug and its raw material worth Rs 478.65 crore have been seized. While giving information on Wednesday, an ATS official said that during the raid on a small factory and warehouse near Vadodara on Tuesday night, ATS has also arrested five people. At present, the ATS team is busy interrogating the accused.
Actually, ATS has come to know in the initial investigation that the accused were preparing MD medicine under the guise of manufacturing legal chemicals, which comes under the category of narcotics. Where the accused were manufacturing mephedrone, a narcotic, for the last 45 days in a factory made using metal sheets. It has been said that the machinery used in making the medicine has also been seized. Also, those arrested have been identified as Saumil Pathak, Shailesh Kataria, Vinod Nizama, Mohammad Shafi Dewan and Bharat Chavda.
Learned to make drugs through ‘dark web’
ATS officials say that during the investigation, it has been found that Soumil Pathak, a resident of Vadodara, learned the process of making drugs through the ‘dark web’, which after setting up the unit near Sindhrot, involved others in it. In this, the accused Kataria, a chemistry graduate, worked as a chemist in the factory to produce the MD drug using various ingredients, while three others handled the logistics.
Saumil Pathak was arrested by the Mumbai Police in 2017
At the same time, in the investigation of ATS, it was revealed that in the year 2017, Mumbai Police had caught Pathak with drugs, after which he was sent to jail. The ATS says that while in jail, he came in contact with one Salim Dola, who explained to Pathak about drug manufacturing. Along with this, arrangements for raw materials were also made for it.
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