Gandhinagar: Five Pakistan nationals have been nabbed off on Monday with heroin worth Rs 175 crore, in a joint operation with the Indian Coast Guard and the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Gujarat Police.
They were caught from mid-sea in the Kutch coast in Gujarat.
After receiving specific inputs about heroin smuggling by Pakistani nationals, the forces conducted a joint operation where they nearly confiscated 35 packets of banned drug from the boat they were travelling.
Head of the ATS Himanshu Shukla said that they had received credible information that an illegal consignment of narcotic drugs, Heroin, is going to be smuggled in Gujarat through coast.
They are being interrogated to know more leads into the case.