Overview
- Acting on specific intelligence, officers intercepted a female passenger at CSMIA and found nine pouches hidden inside coffee packets.
- An NDPS field kit indicated the substance was cocaine, with the haul weighing 4.7 kg and valued at about Rs 47 crore.
- The intended airport recipient was detained, and three additional suspects linked to financing, logistics and distribution were picked up in follow-up action.
- All five suspects have been arrested under the NDPS Act as investigators work to trace the wider trafficking network.
- The Finance Ministry flagged a rising tactic of using Indian women as couriers with narcotics concealed in everyday edibles.