Updated On: 28 February, 2023 08:16 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
“The suspected passenger was intercepted by the team of DRI officers in the early hours of 27th February and a thorough search of the passenger’s baggage resulted in the recovery of 2.58 kg of Cocaine concealed in 12 soap bars being carried by the said passenger inside his trolley bag

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Directorate of Revenue Intelligence’s Mumbai Zonal Unit on Tuesday recovered 2.58 kilograms of cocaine from a passenger’s baggage at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai.
A spokesperson of the Unit, in a statement, said that based on “certain intelligence” that narcotic drugs were being smuggled into India by a passenger who was travelling from Addis Ababa to Mumbai, surveillance was mounted by a team of officers at the Airport.