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DRUG TRAIL: Officials undergo apprehended 17 drug consignments over persist 6 cycles went for Beijing.
CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury guidelines Left, Cong may go up later.
After confiscating 17 consignments of drugs in lowered as opposed to a year’s time, government fear Chennai may experience become a transit rate for drugs making smuggled to China for the Beijing Olympics.
Within the the preceding six months, supervisors experience confiscated 12 larger consignments of Ketamine class Rs 8 crore and 5 consignments of heroin market worth Rs 9 crore based on what i read in the Chennai Airport.
Sources say to CNN-IBN the present all the consignments got on the way to Beijing to cater to the massive tourist inflow for the 2008 Olympic Games.
According to officials, the drugs arrived in Chennai out of north India and got on such a way to Malaysia and next to the closing conclusion in China.
“The smugglers take the shortest direction achievable to minimise the risks. Chennai is the numerous convenient for them as it is perfectly tethered to such countries and the long time taken for transit is essentially less,” Customs Joint Commissioner K Engineer said.
While 1 kg Ketamine market value between Rs 15 and 35000 rupees in India, its overseas prices is as great as Rs 10 lakh per kg. In the previous drugs hold often carried on smuggled based on information from South East Asia via India to Middle East and European destinations.
But the newly written seizures are probably a reminder overly Chennai can undergo now become a required transit rank for drug smugglers went for China.
“Chennai is no gateway for drug trafficking. Ketamine performs not arrive below the NDPS act and it can be exhausted as a medicine also. But it is foreclosed when it is illegally taken. But no significant drugs desire Opium continually turn up to Tamil Nadu,” Chennai Joint Commissioner (North) M Ravi said.
Ketamine is referred to as the date rape drug. Because of its resemblance to sugar, it is not clearly identifiable and is often used up to peak drinks.
Now provided the drug scare threatening the Olympic Games, measures are on to affix Ketamine underneath the NDPS Act in condition to discourage the smuggling of the drug.
