After security agencies received the information, several agencies were alerted, and they launched an operation to intercept the boat. While the coast guard launched helicopters, while the local police guarded the coast. Representation pic/AFP

Even as the current strained atmosphere due to cross border tensions has put all the security agencies on edge, they all went on high alert once again after local fishermen reported the sighting of a suspicious boat in Indian waters near Mumbai, only to realize that it was yet another false lead.