Pakistani Boat with 10 Crew Members Held Off Gujarat Coast

now viewing

Pakistani Boat with 10 Crew Members Held Off Gujarat Coast

January 9, 2022 Editor In Chief

now playing

Roving Periscope: Worried, the West prepares for Trump’s return to WH!

January 9, 2022 Editor In Chief

now playing

PM Modi’s statements about nation’s resources combat brazen appeasement of Congress

January 9, 2022 Editor In Chief

now playing

What a relief: Britain “observes closely,” and discusses how horses bolted!

January 9, 2022 Editor In Chief

now playing

ACC delivers lifetime highest annualised PAT

January 9, 2022 Editor In Chief

now playing

Dubai rainstorm: “Great lessons learned,” says the UAE; announces $544 mn for repairs

January 9, 2022 Editor In Chief

now playing

Kotak Mahindra Bank Barred from Taking New Online Customers, Issuing New Credit Cards

January 9, 2022 Editor In Chief

now playing

BJP Expels Bikaner Minority Cell President for Criticising Modi on Muslim Comments

January 9, 2022 Editor In Chief

now playing

Banswara: Congress Campaigning Against its Own Candidate

January 9, 2022 Editor In Chief

now playing

Judgement Reserved on Total Verification of VVPAT Slips, but SC Satisfied on ECI Clarifications

January 9, 2022 Editor In Chief

now playing

Heatwave: Nitin Gadkari Faints on Dais, Recover Quickly to Complete Speech

January 9, 2022 Editor In Chief

Social Share

NEW DELHI, Jan 9: The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) apprehended a Pakistani boat named ‘Yaseen’ with 10 crew members on board in the Indian waters off the Gujarat coast during an operation on Saturday night, an official spokesman said on Sunday.

“The Indian Coast Guard ship Ankit apprehended Pakistani boat ‘Yaseen’ with 10 crew in Indian waters at Arabian Sea during night ops on 08 Jan. Boat being brought to Porbandar for further interrogation,” the official said in a tweet. On September 15 last year, the ICG had in a similar operation caught a Pakistani boat with 12 crew members in the Indian waters off the Gujarat coast.

There has also been a rise in cases of such boats being used to smuggle drugs through the State coast. On December 20, 2021, a Pakistani fishing boat with six crew members and carrying 77 kg of heroin worth around ₹400 crore was apprehended in the Indian waters off the Gujarat coast by the ICG in a joint operation with the state Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS).

(Manas Dasgupta)