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Thailand woman arrested with 4.9 kg of heroin at airport
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI: Officials of the Air Intelligence Unit of the Customs arrested a 25-year-old Thailand woman after seizing heroin from her at the Chennai airport on Tuesday.
C. Rajan, Commissioner of Customs, Airport, said officials intercepted Punsakon Patcharut on suspicion. A search of her handbag revealed nothing, so the officials recalled her checked-in suitcase.
The inner portion of the back end of the suitcase looked bulged a bit, and the inner cloth layer was found tampered with.
Cutting open the inner cloth lining, the authorities found four polythene packets of heroin pasted on the top and bottom back ends of the suitcase.
The bags contained 4.9 kg of heroin.
Trip promised
The passenger told the officials that she had gone to New Delhi from Thailand, where a stranger handed over a suitcase containing the drug. The contraband would be received by someone at Kuala Lumpur.
She tried to smuggle the contraband after she was promised a tourist trip to India.
This was the largest quantity of heroin seized by the Customs at the Chennai airport in the past decade, Mr Rajan added.
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