Ahmedabad: In a joint operation of the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism squad (ATS) and Guard Coast India (ICG), Pakistani fishing vessels with six crew members from Karachi carrying 77 kg of heroin – the estimated price between Rs 385 Crore.
and RS 400 Crore in the international market – confiscated in Indian waters from Jakhau Beach in Gujarat on Sunday midnight, the Director General of Police Ashish Bhatia said on Monday.
Drug seizures made in the middle sea operation of about 35 miles of sea from Jakhau Beach in Kutch District Gujarat.
ATS officers and the ICG team understood Pakistani ‘Al Huseini’ fishermen with six crew members in Indian waters and won 77 kg of heroin which was the largest seizure in the sea this year.
The ship was then taken to the Jakhau beach for further investigation, he said.
Previously in September, Gujarat ATS had confiscated around 35 kg of heroin in the operation in the Mediterranean Sea and held seven Iranian citizens on September 18.
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Then, during the investigation, they held around 11 people and won a total of 146 kg of drugs worth RS 730 Crore.
Regarding the last night sea operation at the end of the night, the Gujarat police officer said that the Pakistani ship had left the Karachi port and strives to establish contacts using very high frequency radio channels (VHF) and code words, ‘day-1’ and ‘days 2 ‘, for drug delivery.
Joint operation was carried out after the Deputy Supervisor of ATS Police Bhavesh Rozia received a tip-off that the ship from Karachi was to reach around 35 nautical miles from the Jakhau coast, after crossing the international maritime border between the two countries, between the two countries, said.
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The boat, owned by Shahbaz Ali from Karachi in Pakistan, leaving the Karachi port and members of the crew containing drugs sent to them on a fiber boat at a distance of six miles of sea from Port Karachi.
The initial interrogation of the National Pakistani arrested revealed that heroin was supplied by two Pakistani smugglers, identified as Haji Hasan and Haji Hasam, and according to Tip-Off, it would be conveyed to people associated with the underworld in Punjab.
It must be lowered somewhere along Gujarat Beach in Kutch, said ATS officers.
When he was challenged, the crew members tried to escape.
But, the ship outperformed and the crew members were forced to surrender by the ICG and ATS team, the official statement of the Ministry of Defense.
Even though the weather conditions were bad, the ship was truly searched and five bags containing around 77 kg of heroin were confiscated, he said.
The crew members arrested by ATS and ICG were identified as Mohammed Imran Vager, Mohammed Sajid Vager, Mohammed Denmark Vager, Ashfaq Vager, all Muslim residents of Mujahid Colony at Baldiya Karachi City; Ismail Badala, a resident of the Badar Ground region in Karachi and Sagar Vager, a resident of Baba Island in Karachi.
RS 400-CR Heroin was confiscated from Gujarat Beach
