A Tanzania national was caught with 1.38kg of heroin worth ₹11.53 crore at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Shamshabad.
Though the passenger was caught on April 26, he was admitted to a hospital for six days, and 108 capsules of heroin wrapped in the adhesive transparent tape were purged out from his body. The passenger was arrested under relevant Sections of the NDPS Act on Tuesday and was later remanded to judicial custody.
Customs officials said that based on passenger profiling and body behaviour, the officers of the Air Intelligence Unit at the airport identified and intercepted the accused Tanzania national, aged about 50 Years, who arrived from Johannesburg via Abu Dhabi by Etihad Airways Flight No. EY-274.
