3 kg of drugs hidden in lehengas seized, 6 arrested
The Hindu
The contraband was bound for Australia
Over the last three days, Narcotics Control Bureau, Bengaluru Zonal Unit, officials arrested six people, who were allegedly involved in smuggling commercial quantities of drugs to clients in India and abroad. They are part of two major drug syndicates, said NCB officials.
In the first operation, an NCB team (Hyderabad sub-zone), acting on specific information, seized 3 kg of pseudoephedrine that was concealed in packets along the fall line of three lehengas. The parcel, which was seized in Hyderabad, was bound for Australia. The contraband was well concealed and stitched to avoid detection by enforcement agencies.
![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.