Gujarat ATS helps Maharashtra police recover party drug worth 27.5 crore

Concordant, Ahmedabad

The Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Gujarat police, which had busted a drug racket here last month recovering party drug Ephedrine worth a whopping Rs 270 crore, has now helped police in neighboring Maharashtra to recover another major haul of yet another party drug Mandrax worth Rs 27.5 crore from a farmhouse situated in a remote village of Palghar district.

ATS Police Inspector B P Rozia, who was part of the ATS team, today said that based on an information with the anti terror agency that mandrax was being stored in a farm house, a joint raid was conducted on the farm house in Gaurapur village under Wada police station of the district in Maharashtra late yesterday night.

550 kg of Mandrax powder was recovered which was worth around Rs 27.5 crore. The owner of the farm house and one of his aide was detained by the Palghar police in this connection, Mr Rozia said.

He said that it was being investigated as to whether there was any link between the the two recoveries.

-DeshGujarat