₹1 crore in narcotics seized in raids across Ahmedabad; 25 arrested

The Crime Branch of India (CBI) and the Special Operations Group (SOG) conducted a bid of coordinated raids crossed Ahmedabad implicit the past week and recovered narcotics worthy implicit ₹1 crore , registered 21 cases, and arrested 25 persons, constabulary said connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025).

Large quantities of mephedrone (MD), ganja, and charas were recovered during the cognition . Officials described the thrust arsenic portion of a zero-tolerance attack aimed astatine dismantling cause networks operating astatine each levels, from suppliers to street-level peddlers.

Police said the associated enactment marked a strategical displacement successful enforcement, with investigators placing peculiar accent connected tracing narco-finance networks. Efforts are underway to way wealth trails, place laundering channels and frost assets linked to cause syndicates, with the nonsubjective of crippling their fiscal backbone and preventing regrouping, they said.

“Unlike earlier operations that focused chiefly connected bulk consignments, the existent thrust besides targets tiny quantities of narcotics. Officials said this attack is intended to disrupt section organisation points that substance addiction, peculiarly among youth,” officials said.

Rehabilitation for addicts

At the aforesaid time, the Crime Branch clarified that a antithetic attack is being adopted towards cause peddlers and addicts. While traffickers and repetition offenders volition look strict ineligible action, addicts consenting to question attraction volition beryllium encouraged to participate rehabilitation.

Police pointed retired that nether Section 64A of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, an addict charged with offences involving tiny quantities oregon depletion nether Section 27 whitethorn beryllium granted immunity from prosecution if they voluntarily acquisition de-addiction attraction astatine a government-recognised institution.

The Crime Branch has appealed to families and individuals affected by substance maltreatment to travel guardant and question aesculapian help, stressing that rehabilitation, not incarceration, remains the precedence for those who privation to discontinue drugs.

Officials said the associated operations would proceed successful the coming days arsenic portion of sustained efforts to escaped the metropolis of narcotics and dismantle organised cause networks operating successful and astir Ahmedabad.