![]() When DRI sleuths opened the containers on September 15, they spotted hundreds of white synthetic bags, each large enough to seat an adult. The shipment of talc stones, a clay mineral used as raw material for cosmetics, was headed for Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh and meant for a Chennai-based couple, Machavaram Sudhakar and his wife Vaisali. However, it was the consignor that piqued the sleuths’ interest-Hasan Husain Ltd, a firm based in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan. The port receives 5.6 million such containers each year. For the Department of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials who had zeroed in on the shipment, these 20-feet-long containers originating in Iran’s Bandar Abbas port and dispatched to Gujarat’s arid Kutch district, were like two needles in a very giant haystack. The two rust-brown shipping containers from Iran were among thousands stacked in neat rows like toy bricks in India’s largest seaport, Mundra. Celebrity drug busts: Maximum city, maximum worry.50 million drug addicts is a huge pull factor: NCB D-G Satya Narayan Pradhan. ![]()
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