DRI seizes 300 kg of heroin from containers at port in Navi Mumbai
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The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Friday seized about 300 kg of heroin from some containers at the Nhava Sheva Port in Navi Mumbai. A hunt has been launched for the supposed recipients.
Preliminary DRI findings have steered that the containers had originated from Bandar Abbas port in Iran. The contraband was being smuggled in the garb of a talcum powder consignment.
In August final 12 months, the DRI had seized 191 kg of heroin at the identical port and arrested Suresh Bhatia, Mohammed Nauman and Mahendra Nigam, aside from two Customs home brokers, Meenanath Bodake and Kondibhau Gunjal, for his or her alleged involvement.
That consignment, suspected to have originated from Pakistan’s Gwadar, had been routed by means of Chabahar in Iran. The cargo was declared as an Ayurvedic product, mulethi (licorice), and the medication have been hid in plastic pipes painted to resemble bamboos. It had been booked beneath a fictitious identify, Ghulam Mohiuddin, proven as a resident of Kandahar in Afghanistan.
The importer firm was declared as Sarvim Exports, situated at Derawal Nagar in Delhi, which was allegedly owned by Bhatia.
It is alleged that Bhatia and Nauman have been half of a syndicate that had already introduced in three different consignments in the identical method. They joined fingers after they have been lodged in Tihar Jail. While Bhatia was serving sentence for crimes beneath the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, Nauman was in jail in a fraud case.
In the jail, additionally they met Nigam and later employed his godown to retailer the consignments, as alleged.
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