Chennai, Feb 8 (BPNS)
Six people including three Sri Lankan nationals were apprehended by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) while busting a major drug syndicate in Chennai on Tuesday.
11 kg of the drug, amphetamine was seized from those arrested from the Chennai –Gummidipoondi national highway during the early hours of Tuesday. The NCB officers intercepted a goods carrier and detained its driver and found 11 packets of 1 kg each of the drug amphetamine in the carrier.
The packets, according to NCB sleuths were well concealed in a tarpaulin within a big machine in the truck and was difficult to detect. On interrogation, the driver of the goods carrier revealed the details of the other five members of the gang and the NCB arrested all of them including three Sri Lankans.
The NCB officers said that the arrested were planning to smuggle the drug to Sri Lanka and to other states of India. The arrested included the financier, carrier, middleman, vehicle owner, and peddler.
Sources in the NCB while speaking to BPNS said, “ The Sri Lankan nationals are getting more involved in the smuggling of amphetamine drug and according to the information we received the source of this drug is Manipur in the Indo- Myanmar border. The gang is well networked in Sri Lanka and other South Indian states for the past seven years.”
