Pant was the captain of the oil tanker Smyrtos, which was intercepted by British armed forces in the English Channel on June 14 in the first UK-led operation of its kind.
The consignments included electronics, pharmaceuticals, gems and jewellery, and were dispatched from locations including the seaports of Mundra, Nhava Sheva and Chennai, and air cargo complexes at Mumbai (Sahar), Kolkata and Hyderabad.