India's coast guard said Tuesday they had seized their biggest haul of illicit drugs when they stopped a fishing boat smuggling 5.5 tonnes of methamphetamine from war-torn Myanmar. An Indian Coast Guard (ICG) reconnaissance air patrol spotted a small fishing boat in the Andaman Sea -- which lies between India and troubled Myanmar -- "operating in a suspicious manner".

The coast guard found that a crew of Myanmar nationals was smuggling the prohibited drug after boarding their fishing boat in Indian waters

India's coast guard said Tuesday they had seized their biggest haul of illicit drugs when they stopped a fishing boat smuggling 5.5 tons of methamphetamine from war-torn Myanmar. An Indian Coast Guard (ICG) reconnaissance air patrol spotted a small fishing boat in the Andaman Sea — which lies between India and troubled Myanmar — "operating in a suspicious manner.

As per conservative estimates, Meth is valued at Rs. 5 crore/kg ($0.58 million/kg), which puts the latest seizure value at Rs. 27,500 crore ($3 billion).