Articles tagged under: ATS

Largest 3300 kg seizure of drugs off Gujarat coast by ATS, Navy, NCB

February 27, 2024
Largest 3300 kg seizure of drugs off Gujarat coast by ATS, Navy, NCB

Porbandar: Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS), Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), and Indian Navy in a joint operation in sea off the Gujarat coast, captured a boat with 3,300 kg of drugs and apprehended five men suspected to be from Pakistan or Iran. The boat was apprehended near the International Maritime Boundary Line with Pakistan. According to the spokesperson of the Indian Navy, "Indian Navy in a coordinated ops with Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), apprehended a suspicious dhow carrying a...Read More

Gujarat Police detains Mufti Salman Azhari; Supporters gather on road in Ghatkopar

February 05, 2024
Gujarat Police detains Mufti Salman Azhari; Supporters gather on road in Ghatkopar

Gandhinagar: After the video of his inflammatory speech given in Junagadh went viral, the team of Gujarat Police's Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) and Junagadh Police detained Mufti Salman Azhari from Ghatkopar area of Mumbai to take him to Junagadh and arrest him. While Gujarat Police was wanting to take him to Junagadh, Mufti's supporters surrounded the police in Ghatkopar area. Despite all the efforts of Mumbai Police, no solution could be found even after midnight. Gujarat Police has clearly...Read More

Gujarat ATS busts a spy network of Pakistan; One held

October 20, 2023
Gujarat ATS busts a spy network of Pakistan; One held

Anand: The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) today arrested a person from the town of Tarapur for his key role in assisting the spy activities of Pakistan. The accused was originally a Pakistani citizen who later acquired Indian citizenship. He had sent an Indian sim card to Pakistan through his relatives when he visited Pakistan. The accused also generated and sent OTP and activated a Whatsapp account that helped Pakistani spy agency to sent trojan files into mobile phones of Indian people, ma...Read More

Director of Coast Guard commends SSP (Operations) of ATS Gujarat

August 31, 2023
Director of Coast Guard commends SSP (Operations) of ATS Gujarat

Gandhinagar: Shri Sunil Joshi, IPS, Senior Superintendent of Police (Ops) of Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) Gujarat was commended by the Director General Indian Coast Guard on the occasion of 15 August 2023 for his stellar role in ICG-ATS joint anti-narcotics operations at sea. Director General Rakesh Pal, Director General Indian Coast Guard on maiden visit to ICG region (North West), presented the commendation badge and certificate in person to Shree Joshi at CG Regional HQ Gandhinagar on 31 A...Read More

Attempt to derail train near Vadodara: Gujarat ATS joins probe

August 31, 2023
Attempt to derail train near Vadodara: Gujarat ATS joins probe

Vadodara: Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Gujarat Police has undertaken the investigation of the case of attempt to derail a train on the railway track between Varnama and Intola near Vadodara. A team of ATS including a PSI conducted an on-site investigation of the case for two and a half hours in Vadodara yesterday. Several accused allegedly made a plan of flipping a train by setting a metal fencing pole on the railway track between Varnama and Intola 3 days ago. The ATS team visited the ...Read More

Ankleshwar court gives two ISIS linked terrorists imprisonment till last breath

August 06, 2023
Ankleshwar court gives two ISIS linked terrorists imprisonment till last breath

Bharuch: A Sessions court of Ankleshwar has given imprisonment till last breath to two terrorists arrested in year 2017 in Gujarat. Anti Terrorists Squad (ATS) of Gujarat Police had nabbed Muhammad Kasim Stimbarwala alias Abu Hamza Al Mohazir and Vakil Umed Ahmed alias Ubed Mirza in year 2017 before they could do a lone wolf attack on behalf of global terror organization ISIS. While Muhammad Kasim alias Abu Hamza was from Vadodara and residing in Surat and had joined a a lab technician in...Read More

Gujarat govt approves 45 percent high-risk allowance for ATS cops

July 17, 2023
Gujarat govt approves 45 percent high-risk allowance for ATS cops

Gandhinagar: The Government of Gujarat has decided to give a high-risk allowance equal to 45 percent of the pay including the sixth pay commission to the staffers of the Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Gujarat Police. The decision has been taken at the Chief Ministerial level considering the fact that the ATS cops take great risks for the protection of the citizens and the State against anti-national activities. Minister of State for Home, Harsh Sanghavi in a tweet thanked the Chief Minister...Read More

Gujarat ATS crackdown on IKSP module linked suspects in Hyderabad

June 28, 2023
Gujarat ATS crackdown on IKSP module linked suspects in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) is interrogating two persons belonging to terrorist group in Kolpattar, Hyderabad. It is learnt that ATS is questioning one Syed Faziullah who runs a medical shop in Kolpatra. Recently ATS had busted the terrorist module of ISKP and arrested persons from Surat, Porbandar and Kashmir. Among five suspected terrorists with links to ISKP was a woman named Sumaira. She was arrested from Surat. IOt is learnt that Faziullah was in touch with those ar...Read More

Gujarat ATS busts IKSP module; Arrests 3 Kashmiri youths from Porbandar and a woman from Surat under UAPA radicalized by handlers abroad

June 10, 2023
Gujarat ATS busts IKSP module; Arrests 3 Kashmiri youths from Porbandar and a woman from Surat under UAPA radicalized by handlers abroad

Porbandar/Surat: Gujarat ATS had received information that the banned terror organization Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) linked three radical youths were planning to leave India through the Porbandar coast in Gujarat. They were on their way to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan via Iran and had reached Porbandar. On the basis of this information, early in the morning on 9 June, the Gujarat ATS team kept watch at Porbandar railway station and identified and detained three youths for...Read More

Rs. 215 crore heroin from Pakistan seized in Rajkot; A Nigerian who was to take delivery nabbed from Delhi

May 12, 2023
Rs. 215 crore heroin from Pakistan seized in Rajkot; A Nigerian who was to take delivery nabbed from Delhi

Jamnagar: A Nigerian citizen has been sent on 12 days remand (police custody) by a local court in Rajkot in a 30 kg heroin drug case. According to details shared by government lawyer Rajesh Vora, Police had received information that three bags full of heroin, totaling 30 kg were lying in unmanned area behind Khandheri stadium in Rajkot and one Bablu was going to take its delivery. Police arranged a watch and waited for someone to come to take delivery of drugs so that he could be nabbed ...Read More