A Kenya Airways passenger was arrested at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, for trying to smuggle heroin worth Sh127 million.
The female passenger arrived in India from Harare via Nairobi on board a Kenya Airways flight, India’s Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) said.
The suspect, Rukshana Shaikh said the drugs were handed over to her in Harare and the same were to be delivered to two persons in Mumbai upon interrogation.
An official said that examination of the passenger baggage resulted in the recovery and seizure of heroin in the form of cream-colored granules.
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“On testing with narcotics field testing kit, the substance tested positive for the presence of ‘heroin’, a narcotic drug covered under the NDPS Act,1985,” the official added.
The officers further added that the heroin was packed between trolley bags and file folders and arrested the said recipients who had come to pick up the package.
According to the police in India, the two suspects were acting on instructions of a Nigerian national based in Delhi.