Indian Passenger arrested with ₹15 crore worth of Cocaine at Mumbai airport
₹15 crore at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai on Sunday. THE DRI official recovered 1,496 grams of a white powder, purported to be cocaine. The value of the drug is said to be approximately ₹15 crore in the illicit market.
According to PTI news agency, the passenger who came via a flight from Addis Ababa to Mumbai was apprehended on Friday. Further, the DRI officers laid a trap and apprehended the recipient, who came to collect the contraband at Vashi in neighbouring Navi Mumbai. The nabbed recipient is a female Ugandan national, the official said.
Both the carrier and recipient have been arrested under provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. An investigation is in progress to unearth further links to the drugs supply chain, the official added. Separately, the anti-Narcotics Cell of Mumbai Police yesterday arrested two drug peddlers and seized drugs worth an estimated to be ₹38 lakh in the international market.
The accused have been sent to police custody till August 22. The operation was carried out by the Ghatkopar unit of the Anti-Narcotics Cell in the Matunga area of Mumbai. In another case, the Navi Mumbai police arrested a 39-year-old Nigerian man for alleged possession of mephedrone worth ₹10.3 lakh on Friday.
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