Edited By: Richa Mukherjee
Last Updated: January 07, 2023, 08:52 IST
An in depth search of the bag led to the invention of 1.596 kilograms of cocaine hid in buttons of kurtas and in false cavities inside ladies’s purses (Twitter/Mumbaicustoms)
The two have been charged below provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and have been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days
A person who arrived on Ethiopian Airlines flight ET-460 was held and an in depth search of his bag led to the invention of 1.596 kilograms of cocaine hid in the buttons of kurtas.
In a separate case, Mumbai Airport Customs Zonal Unit III additionally netted 4.47 kilograms of heroin valued at ₹31.29 crores.
Continuing the drive towards medicine smuggling, Mumbai Airport Customs seized 4.47 Kg Heroin valued at Rs 31.29 Cr & 1.596 Kg Cocaine valued at Rs 15.96 Cr in two separate circumstances. Heroin was hid in paperwork folder covers whereas Cocaine was hid in the garments buttons. pic.twitter.com/shUkxJFUJ7— Mumbai Customs-III (@mumbaicus3) January 6, 2023
“They have been held in separate circumstances. In the primary case, a person was held with 4.47 kilogram of heroin after he landed right here on Kenya Airways flight KQ210 from Johannesburg in South Africa by way of Nairobi in Kenya. He had hid the contraband in 12 doc folders,” an official said.
“In the second case, a man who arrived on Ethiopian Airlines flight ET-460 was held after a scan of his baggage revealed suspicious buttons. These buttons were excessive in number and placed unusually close to each other on clothes,” he stated.
An in depth search of the bag led to the invention of 1.596 kilograms of cocaine hid in buttons of kurtas and in false cavities inside ladies’s purses, the official stated.
The two have been charged below provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and have been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days, he knowledgeable.
(With Inputs from PTI)
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