A Pakistani fishing boat with six crew members and carrying 77 kg of heroin worth around Rs 400 crore was apprehended in the Indian waters off the Gujarat coast, officials said on Monday.
The Indian Coast Guard and the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) teamed up on the drug seizure on Sunday night, they said.
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 Indian waters, according to Gujarat’s defence PRO in a tweet.
As per the tweet, they seized “77 kg of heroin worth approximately Rs 400 crore.”
According to the report, the boat was brought to the Jakhau coast in Gujarat’s Kutch district for further investigation.
In April of this year, the Coast Guard and the ATS conducted a similar operation and apprehended a boat carrying 30 kg of heroin worth approximately Rs 150 crore from Indian waters near the Jakhau coast in Kutch.
The ATS seized a heroin drug consignment worth approximately Rs 600 crore from an under-construction house in Gujarat’s Morbi district last month.
According to the ATS, the shipment was sent by Pakistani drug dealers to their Indian counterparts via the Arabian Sea.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized around 3,000 kg of heroin, believed to be from Afghanistan and worth Rs 21,000 crore in the global market, from two containers at the Mundra port in Kutch in September this year, officials previously said.