Pakistani Boat Seized Last Year Carried Drugs, Arms Meant To Fund Terror Acts In North India: NIA
The boat was intercepted on December 26, 2023 and 10 foreign nationals were arrested. Six foreign-made pistols, six magazines, and 120 live cartridges, along with 40 kg of narcotics, were seized.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has lodged a First Information Report (FIR) against 10 people who were arrested in Pakistan's Balochistan region for allegedly sending a consignment of arms and drugs to India. According to the FIR, a foreign boat named "AL Soheli" was intercepted last year by Indian authorities in the waters near Okha in Gujarat. The consignment was meant to fund terrorist activities in Punjab and northern India.
According to the NIA FIR, the boat, with registration BFD 14460, was intercepted on December 26, 2023. Ten foreign nationals were arrested with the consignment seized on the vessel. Six foreign-made pistols, six magazines, and 120 live cartridges, along with 40 kg of narcotics, were seized during the joint operation by the Indian Coast Guard and ATS Gujarat. The FIR stated that the consignment aimed to provide financial support to terrorist activities in India and fund terrorist gangs in Punjab and northern India.
The NIA said a foreign drug mafia — Haji Salim Baloch Wala of Pakistan's Balochistan — had sent the consignment of weapons and drugs. The shipment was sent from the Poshani sea shore of Balochistan to Harun in the sea of Gujarat.
The FIR has been filed under various sections of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, and Arms Act, 1959 for the offense.
The FIR named 10 individuals, all residents of Balochistan, Pakistan. These people were Kadarbaksh Umetan Baloch, Ismail Sabzal Baloch, Amanulla Mussa Baloch, Allabaksh Hatar Baloch, Goharbaksh Dilmurad Baloch, Anmal Pulan Baloch, Gulmohammad Hatir Baloch, Andamail Boher Baloch, Abdulgani Janglyan Baloch, and Abdulhakim Dilgurad Baloch, reported news agency ANI.
The central government was apprised about the FIR in the case on December 28 last year at the Gujarat Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad police station. Due to the gravity of the offence and its national and international links, the Ministry of Home Affairs' Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Radicalization division ordered the NIA to take over the case on March 6 this year.
The case is now being investigated by the NIA under various sections of the CrPC, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, and Arms Act, 1959.
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