AHMEDABAD: The Interceptor Craft IC-125 of the Indian Coast Guard Station (ICGS), Jakhau, has recovered five 1kg packets of a narcotic substance while carrying out a surveillance sortie off Kadiyari Bet near the Jakhau harbour. The recovery was made on Tuesday. The preliminary sample testing indicated that the substance was charas, worth approximately Rs 7 lakh.
This Coast Guard mission was part of numerous such operations carried out successfully in the recent past in the area of responsibility of the ICGS Jakhau. The operations have so far resulted in the seizure of narcotics worth Rs 303 lakh. Coast Guard assets are being deployed 24X7 at sea as well as in air to maintain effective surveillance at coastal and maritime borders of the country.