Chennai: Customs officials at Chennai Airport have confiscated spiders and exotic drugs.
Based on information, Chennai Air Customs interculted the postal package that arrived at the Foreign Post Office from Poland, said the official release on Thursday.
The gift was aimed at someone at Gajulaka at Andhra Pradesh.
When opening a parcel, the thermocol box is found.
The box contains 10 small plastic bottles wrapped in silver and cotton foil.
On examination, life spiders are found in each bottle.
Animal quarantine officials check spiders and recommend returning packages that contain species to the country of origin because the import is illegal and there is no DGFT license (foreign Directorate General) and imported documents related to India.
Spiders confiscated under customs law, 1962 reading with ACT FT (D & R).
Gifts containing spiders are submitted to postal authorities to return them to Poland, country of origin.
The Chennai Post Assessment Department has confiscated three postal packages containing 274 grams of marijuana and five areas of narcotics – MDMA tablets, metamfetamine, amphetamine, a total of 92 grams.
The package, who arrived from the Netherlands and the US, was confiscated in the provisions of the NDPS Law, 1985 read with Customs Act, 1962.