{"id":113641,"date":"2021-04-19T15:02:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T22:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113641"},"modified":"2021-04-19T15:02:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T22:02:54","slug":"navy-intercepts-lankan-boat-in-high-seas-ncb-seizes-340-kg-heroin-and-arrests-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/04\/19\/navy-intercepts-lankan-boat-in-high-seas-ncb-seizes-340-kg-heroin-and-arrests-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy intercepts Lankan boat in high seas; NCB seizes 340 kg heroin and arrests 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Hindustan Times<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> The heroin consignment seized by the NCB has a street value of\u00a0\u20b9340 crore in India, and\u00a0\u20b91,750 crore in the international market, an official of the federal drug enforcement agency said.By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/author\/shishir-gupta-101608310411340\">Shishir Gupta<\/a>, Hindustan Times, New Delhi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Monday seized nearly 340 kg of heroin from a Sri Lankan shipping boat and arrested five people for drug trafficking in Kochi, people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initial interrogation of the five men has led the NCB to believe that the Sri Lankan boat had picked up the drug consignment from a red-coloured Iranian boat. The NCB hasn\u2019t clarified the intended destination of the drug consignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials said the Indian naval ship Suvarna intercepted the Lankan boat DU Shashila\u201d in the high seas of the Indian Ocean on suspicion of drug trafficking and brought the boat to Kochi&#8217;s Mattancherry Wharf for an extensive search by the NCB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.hindustantimes.com\/img\/2021\/04\/19\/original\/NCB_Drugs_seizure_1618843494106.jpeg\" alt=\"Each of the 340 packets had been stamped with a crown symbol with the words \u201cKING 2021\u201d, a practice followed by drug trafficking syndicates to brand their merchandise, NCB said.(Sourced)\"\/><figcaption>Each of the 340 packets had been stamped with a crown symbol with the words KING 2021\u201d, a practice followed by drug trafficking syndicates to brand their merchandise, NCB said.(Sourced)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Hindustan Times The heroin consignment seized by the NCB has a street value of\u00a0\u20b9340 crore in India, and\u00a0\u20b91,750 crore in the international market, an official of the federal drug enforcement agency said.By\u00a0Shishir Gupta, Hindustan Times, New Delhi The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Monday seized nearly 340 kg of heroin from a Sri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}