Officers of Tiruchirappalli Customs Preventive Commissionerate made the seizure from a shed located on a prawn farm in Mimisal village.
Drug packets seized by the Tiruchirappalli customs. (X)
The Customs Department on Monday, 11 March, said its officials had seized over ₹100 crore worth of hashish and ganja from the Tiruchirappalli district in Tamil Nadu.
Officers of the Tiruchirappalli Customs Preventive Commissionerate made the seizure from a shed located on a prawn farm in the Mimisal village.
A post on the official ‘X’ handle of Tiruchirappalli Customs (Preventive) Zone said the seizure was made on the basis of information about the presence of such substances at the location.
On receiving information that huge quantities of narcotic substances like hashish and ganja were stored in a shed located in the prawn farm “for being smuggled out of India” to Sri Lanka, officials rushed to the spot, it said.
“The shed was thoroughly examined and 48 bags containing contrabands like Hashish and ganja were recovered. As there was no power supply in the shed, the contraband was taken to the nearby Customs office. After testing it was found that the goods were Narcotic Drugs viz., 100 kg of Hashish valued at ₹110 crore and 876 kg of dry Ganja, valued at ₹1.05 crore [sic],” it added.
Recently, 99 kg of hashish, valued at around ₹108 crore, was seized from near Mandapam in the state.
On receiving information that huge quantities of Narcotic substances like Hashish & Ganja etc. are stored in a shed located in a prawn farm in Mimisal Village, Pudukottai District for being smuggled out of India to Srilanka, @cbic_india @cusprevtrichy pic.twitter.com/HIKLFpdVF1
— Trichy Customs (Preventive) Commissionerate (@commrprevcustry) March 11, 2024
The drug bust comes just a couple of days after the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) said it had arrested Jaffer Sadiq, a Tamil Nadu-based alleged dealer of narcotics, in connection with an international drug-trafficking case.
Sadiq, also a producer of Tamil films, was recently expelled by the ruling DMK. He was the Chennai West deputy organiser of the DMK’s NRI wing.
The Opposition BJP and AIADMK in the state have been targeting the DMK over the matter.
The NCB termed him the “mastermind and kingpin” of an international drugs trafficking network spread between India, Australia, and New Zealand.
Last month, the federal anti-narcotics agency arrested three people and seized 50 kg of narcotics-making chemical pseudoephedrine in a search at a Delhi godown.
The NCB since then had been looking for Sadiq and raided his premises linked to him in Tamil Nadu.
(With PTI inputs)
(Edited by Muhammed Fazil)
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