Breaking a perilous drug corridor, NCB’s elite units unraveled a syndicate ferrying contraband from Nepal through India to Sri Lanka. The bounty: 77.60 kg hashish oil, 2 kg charas (10 crore value), plus cars, a motorcycle, and a seaworthy vessel for covert transport.
With five in irons—including a Sri Lankan on the run—the bust resonates with national anti-drug mandates from the PM and Home Minister.
Action ignited March 3 on Telangana’s highways: Hyderabad NCB flagged a Tata Safari, extracting charas from secret hides. Confessions traced the load from Kathmandu across Sonauli, bulk hashish oil pre-staged in Thoothukudi for oceanic dispatch.
Chennai’s raid netted the Tamil Nadu cache from three custodians, one a refugee. Maritime intel prompted Coast Guard collaboration, snaring the fishing boat en route to international handover.
A shadowy Sri Lankan puppeteer emerges as the nexus, funding and finessing the Nepal-Sri Lanka pipeline. Relentless NCB sleuthing targets accomplices and ledgers to obliterate remnants.
Chennai’s haul this year: 973 kg ganja, hefty hashish and amphetamine stocks at 12.5 crores, nine nabbed. Verdicts in three old files jailed eight, epitomizing NCB’s crusade to purge India’s borders of narcotic shadows.