Minority affairs minister Nawab Malik has questioned the Gujarat link in drug trafficking in the country after a massive haul of contrabands in Dwarka. He said on Thursday that the neighbouring state hosted cartels that received drugs from sea routes and distributed them across the country.

Malik, who has taken on some officers of the Narcotics Control Bureau’s Mumbai zone, said the persons named for various reasons in Aryan Khan’s arrest, Manish Bhanushali, Dhawal Bhanushali, KP Gosavi and Sunil Patil, have been frequently visiting Gujarat minister Kiritsing Rana and staying at a five-star hotel in Ahmedabad. He said Mumbai was deliberately projected as a drug haven.