A special court in Gujarat has ordered the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence to investigate if the “Mundra Adani Port, its management and its authority has gained any benefits” from the import of 2,990 kg of heroin.
The Indian Express reported that that a special court for Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances while hearing the remand application of one of the key accused noted in its order that “… it is required to be investigated how Mundra Adani port was completely under dark and oblivious about the fact of import of such consignment and whether its management and its authority has gained any benefits from import of such consignment of NDPS substances in India.”
The court has also asked the DRI to investigate “the modalities and the process for scanning and checking of such container and consignment at foreign nations and at Mundra port when the containers landed at Mundra Adani Port”.
The drugs were hidden in two containers that landed at Mundra port from Afghanistan via Iran in the name of Aashi Trading Company of Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.