Daijiworld Media Network - Kasargod (SP)

Kasargod, Oct 9: A special investigation team of excise intelligence bureau, on Monday October 8, succeeded in arresting a woman who was trying to transport two kilograms of banned drug hashish to a foreign country. The team confiscated the drug from her possession at Palakkad.

The arrested lady has been identified as Sindhuja (21) from Olavakkode, Kanyakumari.

As per an estimate, the drug seized is worth Rs 8 crore in foreign countries.

The team, acting upon secret information they accessed, conducted an operation in Palakkad railway station. During the checking of her belongings, they found hashish having been rolled in plastic and hidden in her vanity bag.

The drug was being transported to Thrissur from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, officials stated. The lady told the officials during her questioning that her responsibility was to hand over the consignment to a person named Muhammed Jabir in Thrissur and that Jabir would arrange to send the same to Oman.

Sindhuja said she gets one lac rupees as remuneration for doing this, and that she has transported hashish to Thrissur 17 times from Visakhapatnam in this way in the past.