Police confiscate 21 kg of heroin
The Hindu
Six fishermen from Thoothukudi arrested, investigation on
A police special team has seized 21 kg of heroin, worth about ₹21 crore in the international market, and arrested six persons in Thoothukudi on Tuesday.
According to Superintendent of Police S. Jayakumar, the team, which was monitoring the Tooveypuram area following information about drug smuggling, picked-up M. Ansar Ali, 26, of Anna Nagar, in Thoothukudi, while he was moving around suspiciously near Tooveypuram Park. When the police frisked him, they found packets of white powder, suspected to be heroin.
Based on his information, the team also nabbed his associates M. Marimuthu, 26, and S. Imran Khan, 27, from whom more packets of the powder were seized. The packets weighed about 162 g in total. “When we grilled the trio, it led to the arrest of three more persons, all fishermen, who had kept 21 kg of heroin in a hideout in Tharuvaikulam, near Thoothukudi, early on Wednesday,” Mr. Jayakumar said. They were identified as S. Antony Muthu, 42, and R. Prem Singh, 38; and S. Kasali, 27. The 21 kg of heroin was seized from Antony Muthu’s house.
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