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Rs 425 crore worth drugs seized from Iranian boat off Gujarat coast

  •   Tue, Mar 07 2023 10:17:48 AM

Porbandar (Gujarat), Mar 7 (IANS): In a joint operation, the Indian Coast Guard and Gujarat ATS have apprehended an Iranian boat with five crew members carrying 61 kg of drugs worth Rs 425 crore in Indian waters at the Arabian Sea off Gujarat.

The operation was carried out late Monday night.

Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) sources said that on specific intelligence information on narcotics being smuggled in Indian waters, the Coast Guard and ATS had kept a watch, and a few hundred nautical miles off Okha Port an Iranian boat was found fishing. Suspecting the movement, the Coast Guard team chased the dhow, and on inspection of the boat, it found 61 kg narcotic substances.

All five Iranians and their boat were brought to the Okha port. The Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) will confirm the substance.

Sources also said that one more Coast Guard team is searching for the party that was to receive the drugs from the Iranian dhow in the high seas. This seizure occurred four months after the previous one.

 
  

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  • Roshan, Mangaluru

    Tue, Mar 07 2023

    There are 1000s of crores worth of drugs got caught and is reported in news. Nobody knows how much thats let in. Which drug peddler would dare to send consignment of consignment of drugs, when there is 99perc chances of getting caught? Whatever that is getting caught for public show, certain that it is peanuts or else these drug peddlers would have been bankrupt by now.

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  • Observer, Mangalore

    Tue, Mar 07 2023

    Consignee mafia must be at Mundra Port

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Raheja Waterfront

    Tue, Mar 07 2023

    I suspect this consignment belongs to Adani ...

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