A South African woman has been arrested by anti-narcotics sleuths when she was allegedly trying to smuggle out 8 kilograms of banned drugs from the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) here.
The woman, identified as Bella Moloi, was intercepted by a member of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which secures both the domestic and international terminals of the airport, yesterday evening at the Terminal-3 of the airport when she was about to board a flight to Kochi and subsequently to Dubai, a senior official said.
"The movement of the woman was suspicious. Based on input, she was subjected to intensive screening which revealed eleven polybags containing 8-kilograms of pseudoephedrine in her baggage. The Narcotics Control Bureau was informed who took her in their custoday," the official said.
The drug is used as a stimulant and is popular in parties.
The estimated cost of the recovered narcotics is about Rs 19 lakh in domestic market, the official said.
