ISRO’s satellite tv for pc photographs present how drug trafficker constructed bungalow in Gujarat village
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AHMEDABAD: Thanks to satellite tv for pc photographs offered by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has been capable of set up how an alleged drug trafficker constructed a palatial bungalow in a Gujarat village through the use of his ill-gotten wealth.
Isa Rao, who’s absconding, is without doubt one of the important accused within the seizure of heroin price Rs 600 crore by the Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) in Morbi district of the state in November 2021. The probe was later handed over to the NCB.
Satellite photographs offered by ISRO’s Advanced Data Processing Research Institute (ADRIN) confirmed how he developed his property at Jodia village in Devbhumi-Dwarka district over three years and constructed a bungalow price greater than Rs 50 lakh, stated a senior NCB official on Wednesday.
The photographs confirmed the phases of building from 2019, he stated.
“Investigation revealed that the property was developed using the money Rao made from the drug trade. As his family was not cooperating with the investigation, we used satellite images to establish that this property was developed over three years. The house has been now seized for being `proceeds of crime’,” stated the official.
Rao is at the moment believed to be in Karachi, Pakistan.
In November 2021, the Gujarat ATS seized 120 kg of heroin, valued at Rs 600 crore in international markets, from an under-construction home at Zinzuda village in Morbi district and arrested three individuals together with Isa Rao’s brother Mukhtar Hussein.
The medicine had been despatched by Rao’s Pakistani associates by sea route and initially hidden within the coastal space close to Salaya in Devbhumi Dwarka district earlier than being moved to Zinzuda, the ATS stated.
AHMEDABAD: Thanks to satellite tv for pc photographs offered by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has been capable of set up how an alleged drug trafficker constructed a palatial bungalow in a Gujarat village through the use of his ill-gotten wealth.
Isa Rao, who’s absconding, is without doubt one of the important accused within the seizure of heroin price Rs 600 crore by the Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) in Morbi district of the state in November 2021. The probe was later handed over to the NCB.
Satellite photographs offered by ISRO’s Advanced Data Processing Research Institute (ADRIN) confirmed how he developed his property at Jodia village in Devbhumi-Dwarka district over three years and constructed a bungalow price greater than Rs 50 lakh, stated a senior NCB official on Wednesday.
The photographs confirmed the phases of building from 2019, he stated.
“Investigation revealed that the property was developed using the money Rao made from the drug trade. As his family was not cooperating with the investigation, we used satellite images to establish that this property was developed over three years. The house has been now seized for being `proceeds of crime’,” stated the official.
Rao is at the moment believed to be in Karachi, Pakistan.
In November 2021, the Gujarat ATS seized 120 kg of heroin, valued at Rs 600 crore in international markets, from an under-construction home at Zinzuda village in Morbi district and arrested three individuals together with Isa Rao’s brother Mukhtar Hussein.
The medicine had been despatched by Rao’s Pakistani associates by sea route and initially hidden within the coastal space close to Salaya in Devbhumi Dwarka district earlier than being moved to Zinzuda, the ATS stated.
