Cocaine worth Rs 50 crore seized at IGIA, 2 women, man held

In a major haul, anti-narcotics sleuths today seized 9.6kg of cocaine worth Rs 50 crore and arrested two young South African women and a Ghana national at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) here.
The seized cocaine is of a fine variety from Brazil, sources said and is estimated to cost over Rs 5 crore for a kg.
Narcotics Control Bureau's (NCB) Delhi Zone Chief Rohit Sharma told PTI that "we have apprehended two South African ladies coming on a flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
"We were helped by the Customs authorities in the action at IGIA tonight," he said.

Officials said the two women, one 28-year-old and the other 31-year-old, had concealed the drugs neatly wrapped and stitched into the walls of their trolley bags.
The NCB, based on a tip-off, apprehended the women soon after their flight landed at IGIA and nabbed a young Ghanian man who had allegedly come to receive the consignment.

The agency will produce all the accused in a court here tomorrow after it booked them under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS).
This is one of the largest seizures of this party drug in the country as police and other drugs enforcement agencies usually seize cocaine in grams as it is very costly.

Cocaine is abused largely in rave parties and in students get-togethers in India.