Drug syndicate busted in Chennai
The Hindu
Methamphetamine worth ₹7 crore was being trafficked from the Indo-Myanmar border to Chennai; three men have been arrested
The officers of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Chennai Zone busted a drug syndicate involved in trafficking methamphetamine from the Indo- Myanmar border to the city, and arrested three traffickers with 8 kg of the contraband. The traffickers were smuggling the drug in a truck to the city for supply and sale. Acting on a specific intelligence input, a team of officers attached with the NCB, Chennai intercepted a truck near Karanodai Toll Plaza, and recovered eight packets of high quality methamphetamine from a wooden box in the truck. The contraband was concealed in eight tea packets -- each contained one kg, with markings in a foreign language. The driver of the vehicle V. Jagadeeswaran was caught.
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