PRO Defence, Gujarat has tweeted that a Pakistani boat named ‘Al Huseini’ with 6 crew on board was apprehended entering Indian waters with heroin worth approximately Rs 400 crores by Indian Coast Guards and Anti-Terrorist Squad, Gujarat in joint operation near Jakhau port in kutch, Gujarat.
It is one of the many major crackdowns on cross-border drug smuggling on Gujarat coast in recent months. The Pakistani fishing boat was carrying 77 kgs of heroin worth approximately Rs 400 crores.
It is becoming an increasingly clear pattern that smugglers from Pakistan are using the Gujarat coast as a transit route to transport narcotics to their destination more than ever before. However, Gujarat ATS Deputy Inspector General (Operations) Himanshu Shukla claimed all such attempts had been foiled,
The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has seized drugs valued at over Rs 1,900 crore since 2016, and out of these this year only with heroin worth Rs 900 crore seized in different operations, including 120 kg of the contraband valued at Rs 600 crore recovered from Morbi district, which was also sent by a Pakistani smuggler and brought to the Gujarat coast through sea route.
Gujarat’s 1,600-km-long coastline as the transit route because of its proximity to the neighboring country appears to be becoming favourite by Pakistani drug cartels.
