Indian Coast Guard and Gujarat ATS intercept over 300kg narcotics | India News

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In an in a single day operation on 12-13 April 25, Indian Coast Guard undertook an intelligence primarily based anti-narcotics operation at sea collectively with the Gujarat ATS. More than 300kg of narcotics price approx Rs 1,800 crore has been seized.
The operation was an ideal instance of inter-agency coordination whereby primarily based on a corroborated enter from Gujarat ATS, an ICG ship from the Coast Guard Region (West), which was on multi-mission deployment off North Maharashtra/ South Gujarat space, diverted and intercepted an tried transshipment in proximity of the notional International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) prior it could possibly be undertaken, thus resulting in the profitable operation.
Based on the credible intel of ATS, the ICG ship recognized a suspect boat regardless of pitch darkish night time. On realising the approaching ICG ship, the suspect boat dumped its narcotics consignment in sea earlier than it began fleeing in the direction of the IMBL.
The alert ICG ship deployed its sea boat instantly for restoration of the jettisoned consignment while commencing a scorching chase of the suspect boat. The proximity of IMBL and the preliminary separation between the ICG ship and the boat on the time of its detection helped the perpetrator to evade interception earlier than it crossed over the IMBL inside a short while.
The cross over resulted in termination of the recent chase and precluded the ICG ship to apprehend the suspect boat. Meanwhile, the ICG staff in sea-boat, after thorough search within the robust night time situations, recovered the sizeable quantity narcotics that was dumped into sea.
The seized narcotics has been delivered to Porbandar by the ICG ship for additional investigations. The jointness of ICG and ATS, which has led to 13 such profitable regulation enforcement operations lately reaffirms the synergy for nationwide goal.