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Times of India: Hashish worth Rs 2 cr on way to Japan seized
Hashish worth around Rs 2 crore in the international market has been seized on way to Japan, sources in the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) said in Siliguri on Sunday. The narcotic, weighing 20 kg, was manufactured in and smuggled from neighbouring Nepal and was booked to a courier service in Siliguri as 'household goods' for delivery to a hotel employee in Tokyo. The DRI officials got suspicious as the courier service firm was paid as high as Rs 50,000 for delivery of the two boxes which looked like those of CD players...The boxes were found to be containing deep brown cakes, which chemical tests said was high quality hashish. The person, Basant Thapa, who booked the narcotic here, was arrested when he inquired about his consignment with the courier service as he found it missing after searching the courier service company's website. Thapa said during interrogation that he had sent on commission several such consignments received from Nepal where narcotic smuggling attracts capital punishment. Nepal smugglers send hashish to countries like Indonesia, Hongkong and Malaysia...more...
