A drug peddler was arrested and drugs worth Rs 20 Lakhs were seized from his possession from Dindoshi, Mumbai, police said on Monday. The peddler has been sent to Police custody till 1st December.
Following the tip, Dindoshi Police arrested the peddler in Santosh Nagar in Goregaon area where he was coming to sell the drugs and he is being interrogated about where brought the drugs from and whom he was going to supply the drugs to.
Earlier in another incident, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) recovered 8 kg of heroin worth Rs 40 crores in the international market at Mumbai airport and arrested two foreign nationals.
According to DRI Customs, at Mumbai Airport on Sunday, DRI officials took in custody two foreign nationals with drugs worth Rs 40 crores.
The team had received intelligence that two passengers were about to come to Mumbai to smuggle drugs, after which the officers laid a trap and interrogated the accused by taking them into custody. After this, the officers checked their luggage and found two packets of white powder each weighing 4 kg which was later found to be heroin.
