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‘Hunt against drug rackets to continue ruthlessly,’ says Amit Shah after NCB’s ‘back-to-back’ breakthroughs | India News – Times of India

'Hunt against drug rackets to continue ruthlessly,' says Amit Shah after NCB's 'back-to-back' breakthroughs

NEW DELHI: The Narcotics Control Bureau on Friday seized more than 80kg of cocaine worth around Rs 900 crore in Delhi.
Taking to X, Union home minister Amit Shah congratulated the central agency on the drug haul and asserted that the government’s hunt against drug rackets will continue “ruthlessly.”
“The back-to-back major breakthroughs against illegal drugs in a single day demonstrate the Modi government’s unwavering resolve to build a drug-free Bharat. The NCB today confiscated 82.53 kg of high-grade cocaine in New Delhi. The massive drug consignment worth approximately Rs 900 crore was tracked down by a bottom-to-top approach after a quantity of drugs was seized in a courier center in Delhi. Our hunt against drug rackets will continue ruthlessly,” Shah said.
“Congratulations to the NCB on this major success,” he added.
Earlier in the day, the central agency in a joint operation with also Navy and Gujarat ATS led to the recovery of about 700 kg of Methamphetamine off the Gujarat coast.
This operation on the sea also saw the arrest of 8 Iranian nationals. The street value of the seized Methamphetamine, a synthetic recreational variety of narcotics, could be anywhere between Rs 2,500-3,500 crore in the international market, according to Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials.

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