Daijiworld Media Network - Mumbai (SR)

Mumbai, Sep 7: A drug cartel that conned young couples travelling abroad by placing drugs in their baggage was caught by the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Mumbai Police.

Key members of the cartel, Yasin Abdul (32) and Badshah Samad (29) in the pretext of helping young unsuspecting couples travelling to Dubai and Qatar would hide drugs in their baggage. As per police, in the last two years, 96 people from Mumbai, Mangaluru, Bengaluru and Kerala have been caught by police abroad for smuggling drugs.
Abdul and Samad were arrested by ANC's Bandra unit on Friday with 1,400gm of charas worth Rs 5 lac and both were booked under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. The price of drugs was reportedly four times higher in the Gulf than the local market.

As reported in TOI, ANC DCP Shivdeep Lande told the publication that under the pretext of helping them make passports and visas and get cheap airline tickets and hotels abroad and other formalities, they would agree to take their parcels. They would tell victims that somebody would contact them at the airport abroad."