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After the interception, the Indian Navy warship towed the dhow to the closest Indian port. There, the crew and the seized contraband had been handed over to regulation enforcement agencies.
In a joint operation conducted at sea, the Indian Navy and the Narcotics Adjust Bureau (NCB) intercepted a suspicious vessel carrying approximately 3300 kilogrammes of contraband, the finest in present cases.
The acknowledged contraband constituted of 3,089 kg of Charas, 158 kg of Methamphetamine, and 25 kg of Morphine.
The Indian Navy plays a vital role in patrolling and securing maritime actions and struggling with unlawful actions equivalent to drug trafficking, piracy, and smuggling.
Appearing on intelligence equipped by the Indian Navy’s maritime surveillance aircraft and corroborated by the NCB, an Indian Navy warship change into as soon as deployed to intercept a suspicious dhow. The dhow change into as soon as heading in direction of Indian waters with a considerable quantity of contraband.
The naval models efficiently located, tracked, and intercepted the suspicious vessel at sea.
Following the operations onboard the dhow, the “finest seizure of narcotics in present cases” change into as soon as made. After the interception, the Indian Navy warship towed the dhow to the closest Indian port. There, the crew and the seized contraband had been handed over to regulation enforcement agencies.
This operation underscored the effectiveness of collaboration between the Indian Navy and the NCB in disrupting unlawful narcotics smuggling routes originating from the Makran soar and extending to varied Indian Ocean Rim countries.
Appreciating the seizure, Dwelling Minister Amit Shah acknowledged, “On this event, I congratulate the NCB, the Navy, and the Gujarat Police.”
“Pursuing PM Narendra Modi Ji’s imaginative and prescient of a drug-free Bharat our agencies on the present time performed the massive success of making the greatest offshore seizure of gear within the nation. In a joint operation applied by the NCB, the Navy, and the Gujarat Police, a huge consignment of 3132 kg of gear change into as soon as seized,” he added.
