The Coast Guard took possession of a Pakistani boat near the Kutch, on which the drugs were loaded.
Six Pakistanis and 7 Indian nationals carrying this drug to India also arrested by the Coast Guard. 194 packets of drugs were recovered from the boat, whose estimated value in the international market is between 400 and 500 crores. The Coastguard feared that this consignment of the drug was likely to be delivered to the mausoleum of Kutch on the sea coast.
According to the Coast Guard, two days back, the National Technical Research Organization and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence got information about the drugs from India through a fishing boat. Taking this seriously, the Coastguard started the search operation by deploying a petrol boat and two intercepts boat in the international water boundary near Jakhov. The Coast Guard used the Dornier Plane in the search operation.
During the operation, it was investigated by interrupting Al Madina Boat from Karachi in Pakistan and in the morning. In the investigation, the fisherman accepted the fate of drugs on the boat. The Coast Guard seized drugs from the boat. Earlier, on seeing the Coast Guard, smugglers on the boat threw some packets in the sea. The Coast Guard recovered 7 packets thrown in the sea.
Ongoing investigation
The Coast Guard is investigating the network of traffickers to detect the drug smugglers. Narcotics Control Bureau and ATS are also in contact with the Coast Guard. It is noteworthy that on March 27, 2019, Gujarat ATS and Coast Guard had arrested 9 foreign drug smugglers along with a Pakistani boat with 500 crore rupees heroin. In this operation, the drug mafia also set fire to its boat. In connection with the two smugglers caught in this boat, many other cases of drug trafficking were also exposed. Earlier, last year too, the heroine of 300 crores was caught from the sea.
