Chennai: Air Customs Sleuth has captured ecstasy tablets, and LSD stamps worth Rs 56 lakh from the package arriving from Spain at a Foreign Post Office at Chennai Airport.
Officials arrested two people to whom the parcel was handled and confiscated 5.5kg of marijuana worth Rs 2.5 lakh from them in Auroville, Puducherry.
The gift was intercepted and opened by customs officials because there was suspicion that it might contain narcotics.
There is a tip that narcotics can arrive by post from abroad.
The statement from the air customs said that the cardboard box contained greeting cards and two silver plastic bags.
The bag has 994 ecstasy tablets with skull images that arise on it.
LSD (Lissergic Acid Diethylamide) Stamp is found in the package on a greeting card.
Ecstasy tablet is worth Rs 50KH and LSD stamps worth Rs 6lakh.
Customs officials from Chennai and Cuddalore went to the address where the package was booked and arrested two people at home.
The search revealed two packages of thunder marijuana.
Rubakmanikanandan, 29, from Tirunelveli, a freelance mural artist and Loy Viegus, 28, who worked on the chicken farm was arrested.
People tell the habit that they have brought marijuana from Andhra.
The defendant was served before Judicial Judges in the Court of Alandur and returned in judicial detention.
There are several examples where efforts are made to smuggle drugs from abroad through couriers or parcels at Chennai Airport.
In February, Customs were confiscated by narcotics tablets hidden in food packages from the Netherlands.
However, there was no arrest made as a false address.
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