Mumbai:, May 5 -- The Bombay High Court (HC) on Wednesday directed the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) to determine whether two Bolivian nationals, who were acquitted in an alleged drug dealing case by the HC in May 2024, could travel back to Bolivia. The NCB is set to grant travel permissions to the duo this week.

In 2014, the two Bolivian nationals, Juan Rivera and Santander Prado were convicted by a sessions court of transporting, processing and conspiring to sell 30kg of cocaine worth nearly Rs.36 crore. Due to lack of evidence, the two were acquitted by the high court in 2024.

"The duo were caught with a huge amount of cocaine and were convicted by the Mumbai sessions court. However, the high court acquitted them in 2024 due to impr...