The residents of middle class Govardhan Giri Apartments in Chennai's Kolapakkam are now wary. For they are seeing a lot of visitors these days - media, probe agency officials - after the seizure of huge heroin in Gujarat's Mundra Port late last month. After Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials seized a huge haul of 3,000 kg heroin, estimated to be valued at about Rs 21,000 crore, from the port, the development had its reverberations in Govardhan Giri apartments with residents, Machavaram Sudhakar and wife Govindaraju Durga Purna Vaishali, getting picked by the agency.

The arrests came as a huge surprise and shock not only for other residents of the apartments but also for those living on that street. The couple certainly does not seem to be capable of having means to source heroin of huge scale or value. With little prodding, residents with a bit of reluctance would tell the media that the Sudhakar and Vaishali, who have two small children, were leading a normal life. According to the neighbours, the couple were religious and used to conduct prayers in the morning.