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A “lot of” out-of-job Indian migrants to Gulf countries have been used by smugglers to ship gold into India, says a report titled “Smuggling in India” released by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) recently.
But while gold smuggling gets a lot of attention, officials said they were more concerned with the clear rise in smuggling of narcotics, as the data shows (see table).
There has been a spurt in the quantity of cocaine, heroin, opium and more processed psychotropic substances like fentanyl that were seized, indicating increased traffic in these items.
The menace prompted a “short-duration” discussion in Lok
