Bengaluru: Officials of the Regional Unit of Bengaluru Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) busted an attempt to smuggle drugs by train and arrested a 29-year-old Ugandan woman In Hubli Railway Station When she was carrying methamphetamine worth Rs 1.50 crore inside baby cereal boxes.
The suspect was smuggling 995 grams of drugs from Delhi in two boxes, which were to be distributed among Delhi dealers. Karnataka,
Bengaluru NCB sources said the drug bust took place on Friday afternoon after the Anti-Narcotics Agency received a tip-off that a large quantity of recreational or party drugs were being smuggled through trains to Bengaluru and other parts of the state. .
After which the NCB team reached Hubli and inspected the railway station on Friday.
Based on specific inputs, they boarded a train coming from Delhi to the station and checked the passengers and saw an African woman who was behaving suspiciously.
The team immediately stopped him and checked his bag and opened it to find two boxes of baby food and cut them apart to reveal a white crystal-like substance, which was later revealed to be methamphetamine in a laboratory test. , which was a highly addictive stimulant and well-known used as party drugs. In drug circles as crystal meth.
A total of 995 g of Meth was divided equally into two boxes that were tightly packed with black plastic to avoid detection.
An estimated Rs 1.50 crore of drugs in the international market were being smuggled into Bengaluru via Delhi to Hubli to be distributed to dealers for further smuggling.
Sources said the young Ugandan woman who was smuggling drugs is suspected to be part of a larger drug syndicate and how she reached India is now being probed by the NCB team.
He was booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act for smuggling narcotics with intent to distribute and was sent to judicial custody and jailed on Saturday.
Further investigation of her contacts is underway in Karnataka and she was smuggling the substance by train to avoid detection by investigative agencies as the investigation in railway stations is very thin.
The suspect was smuggling 995 grams of drugs from Delhi in two boxes, which were to be distributed among Delhi dealers. Karnataka,
Bengaluru NCB sources said the drug bust took place on Friday afternoon after the Anti-Narcotics Agency received a tip-off that a large quantity of recreational or party drugs were being smuggled through trains to Bengaluru and other parts of the state. .
After which the NCB team reached Hubli and inspected the railway station on Friday.
Based on specific inputs, they boarded a train coming from Delhi to the station and checked the passengers and saw an African woman who was behaving suspiciously.
The team immediately stopped him and checked his bag and opened it to find two boxes of baby food and cut them apart to reveal a white crystal-like substance, which was later revealed to be methamphetamine in a laboratory test. , which was a highly addictive stimulant and well-known used as party drugs. In drug circles as crystal meth.
A total of 995 g of Meth was divided equally into two boxes that were tightly packed with black plastic to avoid detection.
An estimated Rs 1.50 crore of drugs in the international market were being smuggled into Bengaluru via Delhi to Hubli to be distributed to dealers for further smuggling.
Sources said the young Ugandan woman who was smuggling drugs is suspected to be part of a larger drug syndicate and how she reached India is now being probed by the NCB team.
He was booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act for smuggling narcotics with intent to distribute and was sent to judicial custody and jailed on Saturday.
Further investigation of her contacts is underway in Karnataka and she was smuggling the substance by train to avoid detection by investigative agencies as the investigation in railway stations is very thin.
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