Heroin Seized By DRI At Attari: Officials of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) have seized over 5 kg of heroin worth crores of rupees at the Attari check post on the India-Pakistan border. The Finance Ministry of India gave information about this consignment of heroin seized on Thursday (May 11) on Friday (May 12).
This action was taken by the DRI officials on the basis of reliable information. The Finance Ministry statement said that a consignment of brooms was intercepted at the Attari check post in Amritsar. During this, heroin was recovered in it, whose value in the international market has been estimated at crores of rupees.
Heroin was being brought through the ground route
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) unearthed a new method of smuggling heroin being brought into India through the land route along the India-Pakistan border. A consignment of brooms was intercepted by DRI at Integrated Check Post Attari in Amritsar on Thursday. During the investigation of this consignment of brooms, the officials of DRI were also surprised. In the search of this consignment, he recovered 5.480 kg of heroin worth Rs 38.36 crore in the international market.
The Finance Ministry told that there were 4,000 brooms in 40 bags in this consignment. In three of these bags, heroin was carefully stuffed and hidden in 442 hollow small pieces of bamboo and cane brooms. The ends of this hollow broom stick were artificially sealed. They were cleverly packed inside an Afghan broom that was tied with iron wire outside.
According to information received from the Ministry of Finance, the cargo consignment of “Afghan Brooms” was imported from Afghanistan by an Afghan citizen along with his Indian citizen wife with fake Indian IDs. This Afghan national was out on bail in the NDPS case registered by Delhi Police in 2018. Both the Afghan national and his wife were arrested under the NDPS Act, 1985. DRE is taking further action and investigation to unearth the entire conspiracy and smuggling along with collecting evidence of smuggling of this module.
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