Two held with hydroponic weed worth Rs.14.38 crore
LUCKNOW, Sept. 28 -- Two drug smugglers were arrested with over 14 kg of hydroponic weed (marijuana) worth Rs.14.38 crore from a bus during a routine checking of a Nepali bus near Khunwa in Uttar Pradesh's Siddharthnagar district on India-Nepal porous border on Friday, confirmed custom officials on Saturday.
As many as 142 small vacuumed plastic covering packets of narcotics were found concealed in brand new water storage heater smuggled from Nepal to India, they added. Each packet weighed around 101 grams.
They said a case has been lodged under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. The officials further said the narcotics were being smuggled into India by two Kerala-based Indians who were arrested. They have been identified as Mohammed Ihtisham and Mohammed Rashid. The recovered green coloured material was subjected to a test and prima facie it appeared to be marijuana, the officials said....
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