77 Kg of Heroin worth Rs. 400 crore seized from Pak Boat off Gujarat Coast

TIL Desk/National/Ahamedabad/ A Pakistani fishing boat with six crew members carrying 77 kg of heroin worth Rs 400 crore was apprehended in the Indian waters off the Gujarat coast, officials said on Monday. “The drug seizure was made on Sunday night in a joint operation by the Indian Coast Guard and the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS),” they said.

Gujarat’s defence public relations unit (PRO) in a tweet 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 the Indian waters.”They seized “77 kg of heroin worth approximately Rs 400 crore,” the tweet said. “The boat was brought to the Jakhau coast in Kutch district of Gujarat for further investigation,” it stated.

In April this year, the coast guard and the ATS had carried out a similar operation and apprehended a boat with eight Pakistani nationals and carrying 30 kg of heroin worth about Rs 150 crore, from the Indian waters near the Jakhau coast in Kutch.