Coast Guard Seizes Rs 3,000 Crore Narcotics off Lakshadweep

The correct answer is the Indian Coast Guard acting in coordination with the Anti-Terrorism Squad of Gujarat. The Coast Guard put its ships and aircraft on the suspected boat, tracked it and boarded it on the high seas, while the state unit carried the case into arrest and investigation. Option A names the Navy and the Narcotics Control Bureau, both plausible in a drug case at sea, but neither is the force that made this interception. Option C names the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, which handles customs and smuggling intelligence, paired with the wrong state police; the dhow and its crew were taken to Mumbai but the partner unit was from Gujarat. Option D names the Border Security Force, which guards land borders and has no role on the high seas. The pairing of a maritime force with a state anti-terrorism squad is the point of the case.

The correct answer is about 526 kg of high-grade narcotics, valued at more than Rs 3,000 crore. The consignment included heroin and methamphetamine, which is why the value per kilogram is so high. Option A keeps the correct value but scrambles the digits of the weight, a common trap where 526 becomes 256; the two numbers use the same digits in a different order. Option C keeps the correct weight but cuts the value by a factor of ten, turning thousands of crore into hundreds. Option D inflates both figures. The safe way to hold this is to remember the pair together, the weight in kilograms and the value in crore, because a question usually alters only one of the two and leaves the other correct to make the wrong option look familiar.

The correct answer is an Iranian dhow operated by five Pakistani nationals. The boat was tracked on intelligence, intercepted and boarded on the high seas, and then escorted under armed security to Mumbai along with its crew and the seized drugs. Option C is the sharpest trap, because it simply swaps the two nationalities: the vessel was Iranian and the men on board were Pakistani, not the other way round. Option A changes both the type of boat and the nationality of the crew; a trawler is a fishing vessel and no Indian nationals were reported among those arrested. Option D describes a container ship with a crew of twelve, which does not match a dhow, the small wooden-hulled craft traditionally used in the Arabian Sea and the type most often found on this smuggling route.