With arrest of three foreign nationals, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Saturday claimed to have made country’s highest seizure of over 1,800-kg pseudoephedrine kept outside a factory in Greater Noida. The estimated value of the seized chemical, along with about 2 kgs of party drugs cocaine, is around `25 crore.
A senior NCB official said it stumbled on the narcotics after grilling a South African woman arrested on May 9 from the IGI Airport.
“The woman was first intercepted by the Central Industrial Security Force. Pseudoephedrine is a precursor used for the manufacture of Methamphetamine, a drug widely used in Europe and South East Asia. This is the biggest ever seizure of pseudoephedrine in India kept outside factory premises. As per our records, this is the highest ever seizure by any agency,” the senior NCB officer said.
“During interrogation, the woman led the officials of the Delhi zonal unit of the NCB to a house in Greater Noida from where a total of 1,818 kg of pseudoephedrine and 1.9 kg of Cociane were seized on May 10,” said the senior NCB official.
Two Nigerians, a man and a woman, have been arrested from the house apart from the South African apprehended earlier, they said. The arrests were made under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.