Mumbai: The customs officials at Mumbai airport have held a 54-year-old man from Chennai who was trying to smuggle 6.5kg of ketamine, a banned party drug, worth around Rs90 lakh to Malaysia.
The accused has been identified as Jaffer Ullah Khan, who works as a driver in Chennai.
Khan was caught by a team of customs officials lead by assistant commissioner of customs (air intelligence unit), Sameer Wankhede. Khan was on his way to Kuala Lumpur in a Malaysian Airways flight at around 11pm on Tuesday when he was stopped for the checking of his baggage by the officers near the immigration counter.
The accused had hidden the drugs in photo frames, managing to conceal packets of 700gms of ketamine each inside every photo frame. The frames had been sealed back neatly, so as to avoid suspicion.
29/11/12 Daily News & Analysis
