Lagatar24 Desk
Gandhinagar, Dec.20: A Pakistani fishing boat with six crew members was caught in Indian waters off the Gujarat coast with 77 kg of heroin valued over Rs 400 crore, officials stated on Monday.
The Indian Coast Guard and the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) collaborated on the drug seizure on Sunday night, they added. Sources in the security establishment said Pakistan is funneling drugs from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to India “on a daily basis”, and the same is “not possible without help from the ISI”.
The Coast Guard, in a joint operation with the state ATS, captured the Pakistani fishing boat ‘Al Huseini’ with six crew members on board in Indian seas, according to Gujarat’s defence PRO in a tweet.
“They seized 77 kg of heroin worth approximately Rs 400 crore. The boat was brought to the Jakhau coast in Kutch district of Gujarat for further investigation,” the tweet said.
The @IndiaCoastGuard in a joint Ops with ATS #Gujarat has apprehended one Pak Fishing Boat "Al Huseini" with 06 crew in Indian
waters carrying 77 kgs #heroin worth approx 400 crs
Boat brought to Jakhau for further investigation
@PMO_NaMo @NIA_India @AjaybhattBJP4UK @ANI pic.twitter.com/W3Ahfb33vu
— PRO Defence Gujarat (@DefencePRO_Guj) December 20, 2021
In April of this year, the Coast Guard and the ATS conducted a similar operation in Indian seas along the Jakhau coast in Kutch, apprehending a boat with eight Pakistani nationals and 30 kilos of heroin worth roughly Rs 150 crore.
The ATS intercepted a heroin drug cargo worth approximately Rs 600 crore from an under-construction house in Gujarat’s Morbi district last month.
According to the ATS, Pakistani heroin dealers transferred the shipment to their Indian colleagues via the Arabian Sea.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized around 3,000 kg of heroin from two containers at the Mundra port in Kutch in September this year, in India’s single largest heroin haul. The drug was believed to be from Afghanistan and worth around Rs 21,000 crore on the global market, officials said.
