Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested three persons and seized 120-kilogram heroin worth Rs 600 crore from a village in Morbi under Saurashtra region on Sunday night.
The three were arrested from an under-construction single-storey house in Jinjuda village of Morbi. The heroin was found stacked in cement sacks, The Indian Express (TIE) reported quoting police.
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The consignment was allegedly shipped from Pakistan in the last week of October and was headed to an African country using Indian dhows.
The arrested individuals have been identified as Mukhtar Hussein alias Jabbar Jodiya, a resident of Jodiya in Jamnagar; Shamsuddin Saiyyed, a resident of Jinjuda in Morbi; and Ghulam Husseinmiya Bhagad from Jinjuda in Morbi.
