Team News Riveting
Ahmedabad, December 20
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.
It added that the Coast Guard in a joint operation with the state ATS apprehended the Pakistani fishing boat ‘Al Huseini’ with six crew members on board in the Indian waters.
They seized “77 kg of heroin worth approximately Rs 400 crore”, the tweet said.
In April this year, the Coast Guard 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.
Last month, the ATS had seized a heroin drug consignment worth about Rs 600 crore from an under-construction house in Gujarat’s Morbi district.
The ATS had said the consignment was sent by Pakistani drug dealers to their Indian counterparts via the Arabian Sea.
