Drug traffickers always innovate new ways of smuggling cocaine in India, the latest trend followed by smugglers is liquid cocaine. A 25-year-old Kenyan woman was arrested at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi for smuggling liquid cocaine on Thursday.
The woman was caught during her arrival from Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), said to be one of the major source for drugs.
On being searched, two whiskey bottles were recovered from her which had cocaine worth 13 crore dissolved in it. She was arrested on spot and the whiskey bottles were seized by the airport police.
The accused has been sent to a 14 days judicial custody.
In a similar incident in the past, a man from Tanzania was arrested at the Delhi airport for smuggling cocaine by mixing it in the whiskey bottles. The man was arrested as he was under suspicion by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence and Customs. He too was arriving from Addis Ababa and was followed by the airport police from the boarding gate.
In another incident, a Nigerian man was arrested at Mumbai’s Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International airport with two whiskey bottles in which cocaine was dissolved in liquid in November last year.
The cocaine is dissolved in the whiskey bottles so that it cannot be detected by the security agencies at the airport.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence have seized 20 crore worth of liquid cocaine in the illegal market. Liquid Cocaine is made by dissolving the powdered cocaine using water or other solvents which can later be converted into powder form.
This technique of smuggling cocaine is becoming more popular because cocaine is harder to detect in its liquid form as compared to its powdered version.
According to the security officials this method of smuggling is used rarely. A Narcotics Control Bureau official told the media, the UK and Switzerland have developed a new technique which helps in detection of cocaine in whiskey bottles without opening them. The DRI officials said cocaine is ingeniously dissolved in the liquid bottles which makes it extremely hard in their detection.
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