In a separate case, Mumbai Airport Customs Zonal Unit III additionally netted 4.forty seven kilograms of heroin valued at ₹31.29 crore. Both the accused have been arrested.
Two individuals have been arrested at Mumbai global airport on Friday allegedly with heroin and cocaine worth ₹forty seven crore, an reliable said. The operation through the Mumbai Airport Customs Zonal Unit III netted 4.forty seven kilograms of heroin valued at ₹31.29 crore and 1.596 kilograms of cocaine worth ₹15.ninety six crore, he said.
“They have been held in separate cases. In the primary case, a person become held with 4.forty seven kilogram of heroin after he landed right here on Kenya Airways flight KQ210 from Johannesburg in South Africa through Nairobi in Kenya. He had hid the contraband in 12 report folders,” he said.
“In the second one case, a person who arrived on Ethiopian Airlines flight ET-460 become held after a test of his luggage discovered suspicious buttons. These buttons have been immoderate in wide variety and located surprisingly near every different on clothes,” he said.
A distinctive seek of the bag caused the invention of 1.596 kilograms of cocaine hid in buttons of kurtas and in fake cavities internal women’s handbags, the reliable said. The have been charged beneathneath provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and had been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days, he informed.