Team News Riveting
Ahmedabad, January 9
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) apprehended a Pakistani boat with 10 crew members on board in the Indian waters off the Gujarat coast.
“The Ankit apprehended Pakistani ‘Yaseen’ with 10 crew in Indian waters at Arabian Sea during Night Ops on 08 Jan. Boat being brought to Porbandar for further interrogation,” the ICG said in a tweet.
In a joint operation conducted by the Indian Coast Guard and the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), a Pakistani fishing boat carrying 77 kg of heroin worth around Rs 400 crore was apprehended in the Indian waters off the Gujarat coast on Sunday night.
The six crew members have been arrested and the boat was brought to the Jakhau coast in Kutch district of Gujarat for further investigation, the Defence PRO in Gujarat said in a tweet Monday morning.
In April last year also, ICG and the ATS had carried out a similar operation and apprehended a boat with eight Pakistani nationals carrying 30 kg of heroin worth about Rs 150 crore, from the Indian waters near the Jakhau coast in Kutch.
