Coast Guard Intercepts Suspicious Foreign Boat Off Kerala

[Matrixx]

The Coast Guard has intercepted a suspicious foreign fishing boat about 100 km off the Kerala coast, after inputs from the police that it could be smuggling drugs. The boat along with its crew of 12 has been taken to Vizhinjam and handed over to the state police.

"Investigations are still going on and we haven't completed searching the vessel," Commandant IJ Singh told NDTV. "Our suspicion is that it was carrying" he added.

The alert from Kerala Police had come on Friday, after which the Coast Guard scrambled a Dornier aircraft from its enclave in Kochi to conduct surveillance. Two Coast Guard ships - ICGS Samar and ICGS Abhinav - also set said to carry out surveillance and trail the boat.

The Dornier spotted the craft close to midnight on Friday in rough weather conditions, while the two Coast Guard vessels shadowed it out of its line of sight.

Just before dawn on Saturday, a team from the ICGS Samar boarded the fishing boat, Barooki, which was flying an Iranian flag. Authorities have also found a Thuraya satellite phone and a Pakistani ID on the boat.

Although using a satellite phone in India is not permitted, many ocean-going vessels do use satellite phones to communicate.

The boat and its crew were taken to Vizhinjam, where a joint interrogation is being carried out by the Intelligence Bureau, state intelligence, local police, scientific experts and bomb disposal squad.

Coast Guard Intercepts Suspicious Foreign Boat Off Kerala

 

[Serpentine]

You either release them now or I'll personally nuke Mumbai and New Delhi.

Hope the problems gets resolved soon through diplomatic channels, but what the hell was a fishing boat doing near Indian coast anyway? They've got too far from home.

 

[PatriotLover]

Gift from ISI

 

[Imran Khan]

how they reached kerala ? were was mighty IN ?

 

[VeeraBahadur]

You either release them now or I'll personally nuke Mumbai and New Delhi.

Hope the problems gets resolved soon through diplomatic channels, but what the hell was a fishing boat doing near Indian coast anyway? They've got too far from home.

Pakistani Ids were found on that boat. Things will take time before everything becomes clear.

 

[ayesha.a]

how they reached kerala ? were was mighty IN ?

Training for war. Chasing fishing boats is the coast guard's job, and they did exactly that. The boat did not reach Kerala.

 

[VeeraBahadur]

how they reached kerala ? were was mighty IN ?

By carrying non-pakistani flag.

 

[Imran Khan]

By carrying non-pakistani flag.

ok i will ask uncle hafiz saeed next time use any other flag

 

[Spring Onion]

IRANIAN. Why become sissy by not mention the name and saying foreign boat .

 

[VeeraBahadur]

Gift from ISI

If their pakistani citizenship is established then fate of those 12 crew members don't look bright to me.

 

[Hiptullha]

The coast guard isn't there to serve those boats biryani...

 

[Spectre]

You either release them now or I'll personally nuke Mumbai and New Delhi.

Hope the problems gets resolved soon through diplomatic channels, but what the hell was a fishing boat doing near Indian coast anyway? They've got too far from home.

Something is "Fishy"

 

[Srinivas]

You either release them now or I'll personally nuke Mumbai and New Delhi.

Hope the problems gets resolved soon through diplomatic channels, but what the hell was a fishing boat doing near Indian coast anyway? They've got too far from home.

Like this?

 

[VeeraBahadur]

IRANIAN. Why become sissy by not mention the name and saying foreign boat .

Then without mentioning how come do you know that boat was carrying pakistani flag ??

 

[Aamir Niaz]

marlay jummay inda moor nalay hahaha sorry