Drug peddlers innovate - try to send the contraband by mail

The fight between drug smugglers and the law is a long one and, as loopholes are plugged to check the spread and distribution of drugs, the smugglers keep innovating to smuggle the contraband. And, the latest innovation is to use the postal department as the carrier.
This has been detected in Noida - Foreign Postal Department seized two parcels where Ketamine was found hidden in a set of earphones and in a pack of bedsheets and, as indicated by the Customs officials, the parcels were to be sent out to Australia.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 2 October 2016.

The authorities had received inputs that some people were trying to smuggle narcotics through FPO. Based on that, two packets, one containing a pair of headphones and another with bedsheets were opened and narcotics were found concealed inside. The narcotics was later identified as Ketamine which is used as an anaesthetic drug.
The officials at the IGI airport have cracked over a dozen cases of drug smuggling and narcotics worth over Rs 50 crore have been seized in the recent past from the airport.
The parcels were booked from Noida and the authorities are trying to trace the address from where the parcel was booked. There are doubts as to whether the addresses printed on the parcel are genuine.


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