Thereafter, the narcotic substance was weighed, samples were taken and further investigation was done.
In his voluntary statement, Suprit Tiwari revealed that he had informed his brother Sujit Tiwari about some illegal activity in which he was to make a huge amount of money and he also told Sujit that he would get Rs.
According to Suprit Tiwari he was working for an Iranian National Sayed Ali Moniri Seyed Mahmoud and it was Sayed Ali Moniri who purchased the heroin and got the cavities made in the ship.
It is alleged that the Master Suprit Tiwari when questioned admitted that they were carrying companytraband substance in the nature of narcotics in the ship.
According to Suprit Tiwari, all the number Indian crew members, i.e. four Iranians and one Pakistani national deboarded the ship after companycealment of drugs.
According to Suprit Tiwari, 4 Iranians namely Ebrahim, Mustafa, Mohammad and Rasool accompanied them on the ship and they started for Sharjah and reached Dubai the next day.
He offered huge amounts to the Master and crew members to illegally transport the heroin.
The allegation against the appellant is that he was part of the companyspiracy to smuggle the huge quantity of companytraband into India and therefore he should number be granted bail.
Information was companylected by the officials of the Indian Coast Guard and the Intelligence Officer opened one of the packets and found that it companytained a substance which was a light brownish powder which on testing gave positive result for heroin.
The Master of the ship was one Suprit Tiwari, and there were 7 other crew members, all Indian nationals.
The Master and crew members destroyed the Automatic Identification System AIS of the ship so that it companyld number be traced by the owner or any other person.
The intercepted vessel MV Hennry was flying a flag of Panama.
The NCB carried out investigation and after companypleting some investigation, filed a companyplaint before the Special Judge, NDPS Court at Porbandar in Gujarat on 22.12.2017 against the Master and the 7 crew members and 5 other persons including the appellant Sujit Tiwari, who is the brother of the Master of the ship Suprit Tiwari.
Suprit Tiwari and crew members after landing in India decided to sell all the drugs and get the ship dismantled as soon as the drugs got delivered to Vishal Kumar Yadav and Irfan Sheikh who assured them to buy the entire companysignment.
These cavities and railings had been fabricated for companycealing narcotics which were stored in water proof packets.
Two crew members who did number accept the offer left the ship.
Therefore, the Indian Coast Guard took their own ship and intercepted the vessel on 29.07.2017.
The Master and the crew members were number in possession of any licence, permit and companyld number even produce any document pertaining to departure from last port of call i.e. Abu Dhabi in U.A.E. or for the next port of call, i.e., Bhavnagar in Gujarat.
Information in this regard was given to the Narcotics Control Bureau, Ahmedabad for short NCB .
About 1500 kg of heroin was loaded on the ship in Gwadar Port, Pakistan and 1 Pakistani National named Khalid Mohammad also joined the accused here.
However, instead of going towards Egypt, as directed by their boss, Suprit Tiwari and crew members decided to bring the ship to India and changed the name of their vessel from PrinceII to MV Hennry.
The Indian Coast Guard received some intelligence inputs with regard to suspicious activities of a ship MV Hennry.
50 crores through hawala.
The appellant Sujit Tiwari was arrested on 04.08.2017.
Thereafter, all the 8 persons i.e., Master and crew of the ship were detained and the companytraband substance was offloaded from the vessel and taken to the premises of the police authorities.
Deepak Gupta, J. This bail application has been filed by one of the accused and we are giving the facts necessary only for the decision of his case.
He identified the locations and approximately 1445 kg of narcotics substance in 1526 packets was recovered.
This was hidden in two cavities modified in the two tanks on both sides at stern of the vessel and also in the bollards and railings on both sides of the weather deck.
