Chennai: Chennai airport customs officers on Friday (June 4) seized 10kg heroin worth Rs 70 crore from two international passengers who allegedly got here to India for medical treatment.
Acting on particular info pertaining to narcotics smuggling, Air Customs Officials on the airport maintained intercepted two younger African woman passengers who arrived within the metropolis by Qatar Airways flight from Johannesburg through Doha.
According to officers, one of many ladies was seen utilizing a wheelchair however appeared bodily match. Based on suspicion, the woman was questioned, after which she grew to become nervous and gave evasive replies. The checked-in trolley circumstances of the ladies have been examined.
On examination, their trolley circumstances have been discovered to have a layer hid within the shell of the field. Eight plastic packets have been hid within the layer. The packets have been sprinkled with some spicy powders to masks the odor. White coarse powder was discovered contained in the packets.
The powder examined constructive for heroin with drug testing equipment. A complete of 9.87 kg of white coarse powder suspected to be heroin, roughly valued at Rs 70 crores within the international market, was recovered and seized below NDPS Act. Both passengers have been arrested.
Further questioning revealed that the woman passenger from Zimbabwe was travelling to India for medical treatment at a non-public Super Speciality Hospital in Delhi. Her attendant, a resident of Cape Town, South Africa was accompanying her.Â
