India, Oct. 9 -- Authorities have seized 2.17 kg of cocaine, valued at Rs.21.78 crore in the grey market, from a male passenger who arrived from Freetown, Sierra Leone, at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) on Tuesday. The contraband was allegedly concealed inside a package of dates.

The Mumbai unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) arrested the passenger and, subsequently, another person who was allegedly the intended recipient of the contraband.

The DRI had been tipped off about the passenger and found the cocaine concealed in the dates. Officials found that the dates had small, black pellets inside them, inserted after the seeds had been carefully extracted. The pellets, in turn, contained a ...