Mumbai : In a significant success in curbing the drug menace in India, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) in Mumbai has seized 9.829 kg of cocaine with a bootleg market worth of roughly 100 crores and apprehended two feminine passengers of Indonesian and Thai nationality who had come from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a press launch mentioned.
The interrogation of the passengers and swift evaluation of the case information revealed that the medicine had been destined for smuggling by a syndicate based mostly in Delhi and close by areas.Â
While one staff of DRI officers stationed in Mumbai positioned surveillance and began monitoring syndicate actions, one other staff of DRI Mumbai officers was deployed and rushed to Delhi to apprehend the opposite key members of the syndicate, the discharge mentioned.
The DRI officers reached Delhi they usually saved surveillance in a single day and had been profitable in catching the potential recipient of the seized substance who was an African nationa
The officers laid a lure in Greater Noida with the assistance of native officers and recognized the mastermind. During the interception, the mastermind obtained violent and he sprinted by pushing the officers along with his full would possibly. The DRI officers, in a dramatic chase, apprehended the Nigerian mastermind and his affiliate. The officers in addition to the accused obtained mildly injured throughout the chase.
Subsequently, each of those members of the worldwide drug smuggling syndicate, together with the 2 passengers had been arrested by DRI, underneath provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic (*9*) (NDPS) Act, 1985, the discharge mentioned.
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