A total of 218 kg of heroin valued at approximately ₹1,526 crore in the international market was seized on Wednesday off the Lakshadweep coast, in a joint operation conducted by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) and Indian Coast Guard (ICG), that was codenamed ‘Operation Khojbeen’.
The operation was launched by the DRI after it obtained specific intelligence over a period of several months that two Indian boats would be sailing from the coast of Tamil Nadu and would receive a huge quantity of narcotics somewhere in the Arabian Sea, during the second/third week of May 2022.
Following this, Operation Khojbeen was launched on May 7, wherein Coast Guard ship Sujeet, with DRI officials on board, maintained a close watch near the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
