Here is what Rs 700 crore heroin looks as if. Imported from Afghanistan, seized in Punjab

Customs officials pose with baggage of heroin which were seized from the truck coming from Afghanistan by draw of the Pakistan take a look at put up, in Amritsar on Sunday. (Photo: India On the original time/Prabhjot Gill)

Custom officials seized 102 kg medicine consignment price Rs 700 crore from a truck coming from Afghanistan by draw of the Pakistan take a look at put up, in Amritsar on Sunday.

The medication were concealed in a liquorice roots (Mulethi) consignment imported from Afghanistan by a Delhi-essentially essentially based mostly importer.

Here is one amongst the finest hauls detected and seized by the Amritsar Customs after June 2019 after they’d seized roughly 532.630 kg of medicines at Constructed-in Take a look at Post (ICP) Attari, from the imports of Afghanistan.

The case was detected after the merchandise were subjected to X-ray scanning as per the prescribed examination diagram. Some irregular spots were viewed by the alert responsibility officer in X-ray pictures in one of the vital wooden logs within the consignments.

Which implies that truth, in glimpse of the suspicious pictures, the Customs officers opened the bags within the presence of Panchas and various Customs workers.

When the complete baggage were opened, it was viewed that one of the vital baggage had little cylindrical wooden logs (no longer mulethi), which perceived to be sealed on each and every ends by saw dust jumbled in adhesive fabric. Such wooden logs were segregated and packed in separate baggage.

These wooden logs were then broken to show a machine made cavity in each and every such log, which was stuffed with powdery fabric suspected to be a narcotics substance. The substance was examined with a medicine detection take a look at kit by each and every the Customs and Border Security Pressure (BSF) which grew to alter into out positive for narcotics fabric.

The stated concealment in cylindrical wooden log interior a cavity created is confirmed within the photos above.

The total weight of such wooden logs was about 475 kg, from which 102 kg of suspected heroin of estimated price of Rs. 700 crore within the worldwide market was extracted. Additional investigation within the case is going on.