Surat: Gujarat is the border State, coast of which is closest to major illegal drugs producing countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. In recent years, 100s of packets containing drugs are found by armed forces on Gujarat coast. Earlier the menace was limited to Kutch coast, but in recent months, the packets containing narcotics have also surfaced on Saurashtra and even Southern Gujarat coast. In more recent trend, some locals who found such packets have started hiding and selling them.

Last week police uncovered two different rackets in which drugs packets found on seashore were sold by locals. One such racket was bust in Porbandar while the other in Surat.

Surat Crime Branch received information that the locals who found Afghan charas packets on seashore were trying to sell it in Damka village. Based on this information, police arranged a trap and nabbed one youth who was possessing 6.50 kg charas worth Crores of Rupees. Police recovered Charas packets that were buried beneath the surface by accused youth.

In earlier incident last week, crorepati youths from Hazira were nabbed for selling Charas. Two youths were arrested in that case. Charas seized in that case was also originally found from Suvali beach.

It is believed that number of locals living on Surat coast have found Charas packets of Afghanistan origin and kept the packets at secret places. Some locals have started throwing out such packets after arrests of some locals by police.

According to the district superintendent of Police VR Malhotra, accused Divyesh would receive delivery of Charas from Varachha based Vijay Vagasiya by communicating on Whatsapp and Telegram. He would procure Ganja from Navsari based Suleman through Snapchat, payment for which was sent through Angadiya.DeshGujarat