7 flyers held for smuggling in 33cr weed from Bangkok
The arrested accused have been identified as Aqsa Ansari, Yuraj Singh, Taranjeet Singh, Athaur Rahman, Javed Shaikh and his wife Farah, and Munnawar Ansari. Acting on specific intelligence, AIU officers intercepted the passengers shortly after they arrived from Bangkok. All seven accused were booked under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and were produced before a local court, which remanded them to judicial custody.
Further investigations are underway.
In a related drug bust in Navi Mumbai, two alleged narcotic dealers and seven of their associates were arrested by the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) last week. The ANC team recovered 120gm of heroin, estimated to be worth Rs 47 lakh, in a raid on a lodge in CBD-Belapur on July 4. All the arrested persons hail from Punjab, police said. — S Ahmed Ali & George Mendonca
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