Bengaluru: Sleuth of the Bengaluru Zonal Unit from the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) damaged drug smuggling efforts by training and arresting a 29-year-old Uganda woman at Hubballi train station while she carried Rs 1.50 crore worth metamfetamine in the baby cereal box.
The suspect smuggled 995GM medicine in two boxes from Delhi to be distributed to a dealer in Karnataka.
The source with Bengaluru NCB said the drug bust occurred on Friday afternoon after an anti-narcotics agent received a tip-off that a large number of recreational drugs or parties were being smuggled through the train to Bengaluru and other parts of the country.
The following is the NCB team rushed to Hubbali and combed the train station on Friday.
Based on specific input, they rode the train that arrived from Delhi at the station and checked the passengers and saw African women who were suspicious.
The team immediately intercepted him and examined his bags to find two baby food boxes and cut it to reveal substances such as white crystals tested lab then ascertained as metamfetamine, very addictive stimulants used as party drugs and famous in the drug circle as a crystal meth.
A total of 995GM met is divided into two boxes packed with black plastic to avoid detection.
Medications are estimated to be worth RS 1.50 Crore in the international market being smuggled from Delhi through Hubballi to Bengaluru to be distributed to a dealer to offer further.
The Ugandan Young woman who smuggled drugs was thought to be part of a larger drug syndicate and how she arrived in India now under the government by the NCB team, added sources.
He was ordered under narcotics of narcotics and psychotropic substances (NDPS) acting for smuggling substances with the intention to distribute and send to custody and locked in prison on Saturday.
The next probe was underway to his link in Karnataka and for whom he smuggled substance by the train to avoid detection by the investigation institution because the check at the train station was very slim.