A high alert was sounded in Maharashtra after an abandoned boat containing three AK-series assault rifles and 10 boxes of live rounds was found along the Raigad coastline on Thursday morning even as the State government said there was no confirmation of a terror angle in the case.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis, speaking in the Assembly, said that the U.K.-registered yacht, which bore the sticker of ‘Neptune Maritime Security’ (a security firm providing armed services for shipping and oil firms) belonged to an Australian national whose husband is captain of the vessel.
He further said that as the engine of the boat, which was making its way from Muscat to European waters, had malfunctioned and that the occupants of the boat had to be rescued by a Korean warship.
