DRI seizes Rs. 125 crore heroin in Navi Mumbai
October 08, 2021
Mumbai: Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized about 25 kgs of heroin worth Rs 125 crores at the Nhava Sheva Port in Navi Mumbai.
Mumbai zonal unit of DRI seized the consignment and suspects it was a part of a larger international narcotics trafficking. The consignment was found to being smuggled from Iran to India in a container. It was imported by a businessman named Sandeep Thakkar from Masjid Bunder area. He informed DRI that another businessman named Jayesh Sanghvi from Navi Mumbai was given his firm’s import export code and he had offered to give 10,000 rials on every import order from Iran.
DRI officials arrested Jayesh Sanghvi on Wednesday from Navi Mumbai and he has been booked under relevant sections of Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. A local court has approved his remands to DRI custody till 11th October .
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