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Devesh Kumar Pandey 5970

NCB seizes 50 kg heroin and ₹30 lakh in cash from Shaheen Bagh

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) seized 50 kg of heroin, and 47 kg of other narcotic substances and arrested one person in connection with an international drug smuggling racket on Wednesday.

During the searches, the agency also seized ₹30 lakh in cash and a cash-counting machine from the residential premises of the arrested accused in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh.

“The contraband was stored in travel bags, bag packs and jute sacks. The seized heroin originated from Afghanistan,” said NCB Deputy Director General (Ops) Sanjay Kumar Singh. The agency suspects that the drug money was being channeled via the “hawala” channels. In order to evade detection, the heroin was stuffed in packets bearing the logo of a popular e-commerce company.

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