NCB: In India, 14 Pakistanis were caught with drugs along the coastal border of Gujarat state.
In an operation jointly conducted by the Narcotics Control Bureau and Gujarat’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), the Indian Coast Guard has arrested 14 Pakistanis with around 90 kg of narcotics near the international sea border in Gujarat, India.
14 Pakistanis have now been caught in this operation based on the intelligence agency’s continuous information for the past few days. Also, earlier in February this year NCB and Indian Navy have jointly seized 3,132 kg of narcotics worth over Rs 1000 crore so far.
The navy arrested five of them. The NCB and the Indian Navy suspect that the 5 people caught in it belong to Pakistan or Iran, and this arrest has now taken place. A total of 3 arrests have been made by the NCB and the Indian Navy in the last 2 years including the current arrest.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has also conducted operations in the Indian Ocean along with the Indian Navy. First, in February last year, they seized 221 kg of methamphetamine from a ship off the coast of Gujarat. Then in October of the same year, another 200 kg of heroin was seized from a ship near the Kerala coast.
Following this, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) seized 2,500 kg of methamphetamine worth around Rs 12,000 crore from a ship from Pakistan in May last year. It is noteworthy that the drug methamphetamine was intercepted and seized in the Indian Ocean before it reached the drug cartels in India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
