Bengaluru: Tamil Nadu man nabbed with Rs 112 crore heroin on train

BENGALURU: A Tamil Nadu man was arrested with drugs worth Rs 112 crore inside a train that was about to leave for Delhi from Bengaluru City railway station, reports Petlee Peter. Directorate of Revenue Intelligence personnel found 16kg heroin in false cavities of two trolley bags the suspect was carrying. He had managed to smuggle the drugs from Ethiopia to Bengaluru.
In one of the biggest heroin busts Bengaluru has seen in recent times, a Tamil Nadu man was arrested with drugs worth a whopping Rs 112 crore inside a train that was about to leave for Delhi from KSR Bengaluru City railway station.
Sleuths of the Bengaluru unit of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) found the heroin weighing 16kg in false cavities of two trolley bags the suspect was carrying. He had managed to smuggle the drugs from Ethiopia to Bengaluru evading detection by airport security personnel. Sources revealed the DRI team received specific information about large quantities of heroin being smuggled out of Bengaluru by train, following which the sleuths arrived at the railway station late Monday night and combed the platforms for the suspect.
After 11.30pm, when minutes were left for an express train to leave for Delhi, investigators entered a coach and spotted the suspect, later identified as a 35-year-old man from TN, who was carrying brown and black trolley bags. Inspection of the bags revealed custom-built false cavities that contained large quantities of heroin.
The DRI team apprehended the man and ascertained that the two contraband bags he was carrying weighed 8kg each. Interrogation of the suspect revealed he took an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa on Monday and landed at Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) around 8pm. He managed to slip past the airport security, including Customs, with the contraband. He reached the railway station to head to Delhi to hand over the drugs to his handlers but was trapped by the DRI team here, sources said.
The TN man was booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act for substance smuggling and was sent to Central Prison. DRI is probing further to find the suspect's links in Bengaluru, if any, sources added.