Last week, India’s Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials along with the Nhava Sheva Customs department seized a massive 293-kilogram heroin drug consignment from two containers concealed with talcum stones in Mumbai’s Jawaharlal Nehru Port.
According to DRI officials, the two containers which arrived from Iran’s Chabahar port contained a total of 350 gunny bags out of which six, three in each container, were packed with heroin which was later confiscated under the provisions of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985.
“These six gunny bags of similar weight and having slightly different marks and sieve pattern were found concealed at different locations inside the containers,” said DRI officials.
The consignment was believed to be headed for Punjab by road before it was intercepted, while the containers were imported by M/s Sandhu Export from Iran via Afghanistan.
Ankur Kundu
Correspondent
