1500 kg Heroin recovery case: 15 day remand of 8 crews of Ship Henry to NCB allowed for further interrogation

Porbandar: A local court here today allowed the 15 days remand of the 8 crew members of the foreign ship nabbed off Gujarat coast with around 1500 kg heroin in the largest ever drug haul recently to the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) for further interrogation.

NCB Zonal Director Hari Om Gandhi, said that all the 8 crew members including its captain Suprit Tiwary were produced in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate here.
‘We had sought 15 days remand for further interrogation which the court has allowed,’ he said.

. The coast guard has handed them over the crew to the NCB for further interrogation and investigation.

Gandhi said that they would be interrogated under remand for the further investigation of this sensation largest haul of drugs from sea in the country.

The drugs loaded at Gwadar port in Pakistan was to be taken to Egypt but the captain of the Ship Henry alias Prince II changed course for some reason to bring it India. It was caught on a tip off at around 210 nautical miles from Porbandar port.

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