2kg heroin worth Rs 15 crore seized at Jaipur airport from Kenyan woman | Jaipur News

JAIPUR: Customs at the city airport seized 2kg heroin worth Rs 14.65 crore from a Kenyan woman who arrived here from Sharjah on Sunday. The woman concealed the narcotics inside the double cloth lining of her plastic suitcase.
Customs officials said it was the first time they had seized drugs at the airport.

Customs officials said, “The substance, collectively having a net weight 2,150 grams having an estimated market value of Rs 14.65 crore, has been seized under the NDPS Act, 1985, read with Customs Act, 1962. The passenger has been detained and further investigation is underway.” “A 33-year-old Kenyan woman arrived from Sharjah by Air Arabia flight at 3.50am on Sunday. She was intercepted by customs officials on the basis of a look out notice (LOC) received from immigration officials,” said a customs official.

“According to the LOC, the passenger had given the same mobile number in her visa application as provided by two other Ugandan women passengers who were intercepted by the customs officials at Delhi airport on December 13 carrying 12.9kg heroin worth Rs 90 crore. On suspicion of being part of a syndicate involved in smuggling of narcotics/psychotropic drugs, the baggage of the passenger was thoroughly checked, both physically & using X-ray, and personal search of the passenger was also conducted which initially did not reveal anything,” added the customs official.
Officials said the passenger remained composed during preliminary interrogation and her behaviour also did not appear suspicious. However, customs officials decided to empty the contents of her suitcase to conduct X-ray examination.
Elaborating further, the official said, “The empty suitcase appeared to be heavier than usual. X-ray of the suitcase revealed the presence of some organic material in lump/powder form. Thereafter, thorough physical examination of the said suitcase revealed the presence of false bottoms on the upper and lower sides which were cut open to reveal the presence of two big paper envelopes, one each neatly stuck on both sides using a strong adhesive.”
On examination, the paper envelopes were found to contain whitish (off-white) coloured substance which was in the mixed form of small lumps/granules and powder, which prima facie appeared to be some psychotropic/narcotics drug. Preliminary testing of the concealed substance using the drug-detection (DD) kit revealed that the substance was most possibly heroin.
Representative samples of the substance have been sent to the Central Revenues Chemical Laboratory (CRCL) for confirmatory tests.