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Acting connected a tip-off astir drugs being smuggled done the oversea from Nagapattinam to Sri Lanka, officials of the Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) seized mescaline worthy ₹6 crore and arrested 3 persons connected precocious Sunday.
The constabulary said the quality portion received accusation precocious connected Saturday astir a planned consignment being moved done the coastal stretch. A squad rushed to Velankanni successful Nagapattinam territory and kept a ticker adjacent the Velankanni Basilica. The officials recovered 3 men lasting successful a suspicious mode astatine a car parking country belonging to the Basilica and detained them for questioning.
A consequent hunt revealed that the 3 were successful possession of 2 kg of mescaline, a synthetic hallucinogenic drug, allegedly meant to beryllium smuggled by vessel to Sri Lanka. The seized contraband is estimated to beryllium worthy ₹6 crore successful the planetary market, the constabulary said.
Those arrested were identified arsenic Ravichandran, 40, of Puthiya Nambiyar Nagar, besides the West territory caput of Hindu Makkal Katchi,; Anandharaj, 33, of the fishermen’s colony successful the tsunami rehabilitation colony astatine Poompuhar successful Mayiladuthurai district; and Murugan alias Kanjinathan, 31 , of Thummachi Street, Pushpavanam, adjacent Vedaranyam.
Cases person been registered against the accused nether 3 sections of the applicable narcotics laws. The 3 were taken to the Nagapattinam Government Medical College Hospital for aesculapian introspection and were aboriginal produced earlier a Judicial Magistrate, the constabulary said.
