Mumbai airport's AIU arrests Nigerian woman with heroin worth ₹2 cr. Details here

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The Mumbai airport's Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) arrested a Nigerian woman with 350 grams of heroin drugs worth 2 crores, news agency ANI has reported..

As per The Free Press Journal report, the woman was to get an amount of 50,000 for delivering the heroin..

Earlier on 7 December, the Anti Narcotics Cell (ANC) of the Mumbai police busted an inter-state gang of drug peddlers with the arrest of two persons, and seized hash oil worth crores of rupees following a raid in suburban Bandra, an official said as reported by news agency PTI..

This is for the first time that hash oil in commercial quantity was seized by the city police, official added. . Recently, a 34-year-old Indian-origin man, part of a four-member drugs smuggling gang, was sentenced to three years imprisonment at Wolverhampton Crown Court..

Joshpal Singh Kothiria was caught as part of a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation in Britain, which uncovered his role as a driver from Wolverhampton in central England who supplied the smuggled drugs to Ireland..

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