Team News Riveting
New Delhi, September 22
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has arrested eight (8) persons in connection with the heroin smuggling that has been exposed at the Mundra Port of Gujarat.
Of the arrested persons, four (4) are Afghan nationals, one (1) Uzbek national and three (3) are Indian. The arrested Indian Nationals include the holder of the Import Export Code (IEC), which was used to import the consignment. He was arrested from Chennai. Investigations are in progress, the DRI officials said.
The arrests were the follow-up operations carried out in New Delhi, Noida (UP), Chennai, Coimbatore, Ahmedabad, Mandvi, Gandhidham and Vijaywada. This led to recovery of 16.1 kgs of heroin from a Godown in Delhi, 10.2 kgs powder suspected to be cocaine and 11 kgs of substance suspected to be heroin from a residential place in Noida.
In its continued crackdown on smuggling of Heroin into India, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) detained two containers on September 13, 2021 for examination that had arrived at Mundra Port from Kandhar, Afghanistan via Bandar Abbas, Iran.
The containers were declared to contain Semi-processed Talc Stones. Detailed examination of the containers led to the seizure of 2988 kgs of heroin from the two containers on September 17, 2021 and September 19, 2021. The cost of the heroin seized is estimated to be around Rs 21,000 crore.
The heroin was concealed in jumbo bags said to contain unprocessed talc powder. The heroin was placed in the lower layers of the bags. The heroin was then topped with Talc stones to avoid detection. Resultantly, the heroin had to be painstakingly separated from the Talc Stones.
