Mumbai: In the first narcotics case of 2015 at the city airport, Rs 9.90 lakh of the ‘controlled substance’ ephedrine was held by customs officers from a departing Malawian woman after a sniffer dog alerted Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) officers. The year 2012 and a few months of 2013 had seen unprecedented seizures of narcotics at the city airport with foreign nationals being the carriers in almost every case.
According to additional commissioner Milind Lanjewar, the woman, Poya Thembisille, who was slated to board Ethiopian Airways flight ET 877 to Adis Ababa early on Thursday, was in the process of checking in her cargo luggage through the security on the conveyor belt. “The patrolling AIU officer with the female labrador Anju stopped when the dog began giving signs of smelling something suspicious. We opened the bag to find bicycling helmets inside which the drug was kept in plastic packs,” Mr Lanjewar said.
06/02/15 Asian Age
According to additional commissioner Milind Lanjewar, the woman, Poya Thembisille, who was slated to board Ethiopian Airways flight ET 877 to Adis Ababa early on Thursday, was in the process of checking in her cargo luggage through the security on the conveyor belt. “The patrolling AIU officer with the female labrador Anju stopped when the dog began giving signs of smelling something suspicious. We opened the bag to find bicycling helmets inside which the drug was kept in plastic packs,” Mr Lanjewar said.
06/02/15 Asian Age
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