Heroin worth Rs 600 crore seized from Pakistani boat off Gujarat coast; 14 held

“Indian Coast Guard and ATS officials approached the Pakistani fishing boat and bravely confronted it. Sahay told media persons, an ICG officer had to open fire, following which the boat’s crew members surrendered and were taken into custody by the authorities.

He said the crew chief’s right hand was injured in the firing and he is undergoing treatment.

He said that after the boat was seized, another ATS team left for the spot. “All the crew members are from Balochistan in Pakistan,” he said.

Last month, the Coast Guard, NCB and ATS seized a boat carrying highly addictive psycho-stimulant drug methamphetamine worth over Rs 400 crore and its six Pakistani crew members off Gujarat’s Porbandar coast, officials had said. Had caught.

In February, the Indian Navy and NCB had intercepted a dhow off the Gujarat coast with five crew members and seized 3,300 kg of narcotics from it, the largest amount of narcotics seized in recent times, officials had said. The largest quantity.

The narcotics included 3,089 kg of hashish. He had said that the price of one kilogram of hashish in the international market is around Rs 7 crore.