Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced on Saturday that Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested nitwrackerstand fire-packed tablets of Captagon, banned stimulant often called a “Jihadi drug” abroad in a big Anti-Narcotics campaign dubbed as “Operation Ragepill.”
The officials said it is worth approximately ₹182 crore and was slated for sending to the West Asian nations. A Syrian national is being detained in the case.
The operation includes the raids at Mundra Port (Gujarat) and in the slum colony of Neb Sarai in Delhi, investigators said. The narcotics were said to be smuggled in the cover of tea boxes and the knock-off would come at Mundra Port as a wool products container.
In a Twitter post Amit Shah shared the information about the operation as they recounted it, and he said that the seizure marked the Centre’s “Dharma Bharat” agenda to have a “Drug-Free India”. Amit Shah further reiterated the “zero tolerance” policy of the Government in respect of drug trafficking. He commended the NCB officers, calling them “vigilant warriors” who are working to thwart the penetration of India as a transit route for foreign terrorists and narcotics supply network, as India remains the hub of traficking.He congratulated the NCB officers for their active action and said that he would like to call them “vigilant warriors” who were doing excellent work to prevent India from becoming the hub of international narcotics peddling and smuggling of foreign guns into the country.
An amphetamine type stimulant (ATS), Captagon has had its reputation tarnished in the context of conflicts and has been associated with Financing Militant Groups (FMGs) and Organised Crime in West Asia in many areas.
Further investigations have been carried out trying to determine the bigger international trafficking network and the origin and destination of the consignment,” officials said. More details on the operation are likely to be provided by the NCB in a statement soon.