Pakistani fishing boat with drugs worth ₹200 crore seized off Gujarat coast
The Hindu
According to officials, the fishing boat carrying drugs was intercepted mid-sea by a joint team of the Indian Coast Guard and Gujarat ATS near Jakhau harbour in Kutch district.
Gujarat’s Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) in a joint operation with Indian Coast Guard has seized 40KG heroin worth ₹200 crore from a Pakistani fishing boat in the Arabian Sea off the Gujarat coast.
The agencies have also held six crew members — Pakistani nationals who were aboard the boat that was six miles inside the Indian waters.
According to officials, the fishing boat carrying drugs was intercepted mid-sea by a joint team of the Coast Guard and ATS near Jakhau harbour in Kutch district.
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The ATS and Coast Guard officials along with the seized boat are expected to reach the Jakhau coast later in the day. The officials said the contraband was destined for Punjab after delivering it in Gujarat coast.
Since the Gujarat coast has emerged as the preferred route to smuggle the drug consignments, the State ATS and the Coast Guard and other agencies had foiled similar attempts of drug smuggling in the past also and caught foreign nationals with huge quantities of narcotics which they planned to smuggle into India via the Gujarat coast.
Earlier, The ATS jointly with Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) had seized around 40KG heroin worth ₹200 crore from a container loaded with scraps from Kolkata Port.
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