The Directorate of Income Intelligence (DRI) has arrested a international nationwide for allegedly smuggling cocaine price Rs 11 crore by concealing it in his physique.
In keeping with a press release by the DRI, the accused, a nationwide of Sierra Leone, hid 74 drug capsules, weighing 1,108 grams, in his physique.
Primarily based on particular intelligence, he was intercepted at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Worldwide Airport by the DRI Mumbai officers on Thursday, March 28.
Throughout questioning, the accused advised the DRI officers that he had ingested cocaine capsules in his try to sneak within the banned narcotic substance to India.
He was then admitted to JJ Hospital after acquiring a courtroom order. A group of medical doctors eliminated 74 cocaine capsules from his stomach.
The person was later arrested below the Narcotic Medication and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and despatched to judicial custody.
Earlier on March 24, a woman from Sierra Leone was arrested with 1,979 grams of cocaine valued at Rs19.79 crore. She had hid the drug in footwear, moisturiser and shampoo bottles and antiperspirants.
