Chennai:
Directorate of Revenue Intelligence have busted a gang in North
Chennai for smuggling Amphetamine, a psychotropic drug, to South East
Asian countries after seizure of 25 kg of drug worth Rs 2.5 crore in
the international market.
DRI sources said that based on intelligence, the officials of DRI
swooped on a residential premises in Kannadasan Nagar in North Chennai
on Tuesday and found Ajeem Kasali and Mohammed Ismail concealing the
drug, which affects the central nervous system and is misused for
recreational purpose as an aphrodisaic and euphoriant, at their
premises.
“They were concealing the white psychotropic substance in yellow
colour wiring cables cut to specific length so as to hold five grams
each of such narcotic drug before sealing both the ends of the tube by
use of equipment and sealing machie,” DRI stated.
It was also revealed that cables filled with amphetamine were
concealed in travel bags to enable it to be taken out of the country
through international airport without suspicion by customs officers.
Both Kasali and Ismail have arrested and remanded to judicial custody
for offences committed by them under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances (NDPS)n Act, 1985.
DRI revealed that residential premises at the outskirts of North
Chennai is being used to hide narcotic substances before smuggled to
East Asian countries.
Directorate of Revenue Intelligence have busted a gang in North
Chennai for smuggling Amphetamine, a psychotropic drug, to South East
Asian countries after seizure of 25 kg of drug worth Rs 2.5 crore in
the international market.
DRI sources said that based on intelligence, the officials of DRI
swooped on a residential premises in Kannadasan Nagar in North Chennai
on Tuesday and found Ajeem Kasali and Mohammed Ismail concealing the
drug, which affects the central nervous system and is misused for
recreational purpose as an aphrodisaic and euphoriant, at their
premises.
“They were concealing the white psychotropic substance in yellow
colour wiring cables cut to specific length so as to hold five grams
each of such narcotic drug before sealing both the ends of the tube by
use of equipment and sealing machie,” DRI stated.
It was also revealed that cables filled with amphetamine were
concealed in travel bags to enable it to be taken out of the country
through international airport without suspicion by customs officers.
Both Kasali and Ismail have arrested and remanded to judicial custody
for offences committed by them under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances (NDPS)n Act, 1985.
DRI revealed that residential premises at the outskirts of North
Chennai is being used to hide narcotic substances before smuggled to
East Asian countries.
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