INDIA. Mumbai: A container having greater than 20 tonnes (roughly 345 kgs) of Liquorice coated with heroin value Rs 1725 crore was seized by a workforce of Delhi Special police from the Jawaharlal Nehru Port (Nhava Sheva Port), close to Navi Mumbai on Wednesday.

While JNPT sources confirmed the seizure, the Special Commissioner of Police (CP), Delhi, Hargobinder Singh Dhaliwal in a tweet mentioned that additional investigation is on and the drug smuggling appears to be part of the bigger Narco terror community.

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The drug haul got here precisely a yr after the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) made the most important contraband seizure within the nation by catching a consignment weighing 3,000 kgs of medication, value Rs 21,000 crore at Mundra port in Gujarat in September final yr.

The DRI had seized the heroin, hid in a consignment of semi-processed talc stone, between September 17 and September 19, 2021, at Container Freight Station of Mundra Port. It was delivered to India from Dubai through Afghanistan. Liquorice is a herb that grows in elements of Europe and Asia. 

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Wednesday’s seizure by the Delhi police was based mostly on the data supplied by two Afghan nationals already in Delhi police custody, that the heroin was mendacity in a container at Nhava Sheva.

The Afghan Nationals- Mustafa Stanikza (23) and Rahimullah Rahim (44) had been arrested on September 06 by the Delhi police and 312.5 kg methamphetamine and 10 kg excessive purity heroin value Rs.1200 crore had been recovered from them. They had been apprehended from Meethapur Road, close to Kalindi Kunj Metro Station in New Delhi.

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They had been apprehended after Delhi police acquired details about an enormous consignment of a recognized drug lord working from abroad that might be transiting Delhi.

It was the highest-ever seizure of high-quality celebration drug Methamphetamine, totalling 312.5 kg, other than 10 Kg of Afghan-origin Heroin.

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